Senior Lead AI Engineer, GenAI Platform & Production

Capital One; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Sr. Lead AI Engineer to shape the GenAI Platform and deliver AI-powered products across the bank. You will work with a cross-disciplinary team to design, train, and deploy production AI systems that make real-time decisions for customers and associates.

You will lead foundation model training, inference, and governance, leveraging AWS, HuggingFace, PyTorch, and VectorDBs, while mentoring engineers to push the boundaries of scalable AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.
• Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems
• Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Cloud platforms

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Master's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE

Job description

Capital One in Cambridge, MA is seeking a Sr. Lead AI Engineer to shape the GenAI Platform and deliver AI-powered products across the bank. You will work with a cross-disciplinary team to design, train, and deploy production AI systems that make real-time decisions for customers and associates.

You will lead foundation model training, inference, and governance, leveraging AWS, HuggingFace, PyTorch, and VectorDBs, while mentoring engineers to push the boundaries of scalable AI infrastructure.