Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

Capital One; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) to help build responsible, scalable AI systems and platforms. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to deliver AI-powered products that enhance customer experiences and internal workflows.

The role emphasizes foundation model optimization, governance, and observability, with opportunities to mentor leaders and shape a broad AI architecture roadmap across Capital One.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years AI/ML development or Master’s with 8+ years in AI/ML
• 10+ years programming in Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java
• Experience architecting AI platforms and cloud deployments
• Leadership experience guiding engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with LLM inference, similarity search, and VectorDBs
• Ability to design scalable, reliable AI systems with governance and safety considerations

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies (AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, PyTorch)
• Advance foundation model optimization for performance, cost, latency, and throughput
• Contribute to Capital One's AI architecture vision and roadmaps
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data, and engineering

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

LLM Inference

VectorDBs

Huggingface

PyTorch

Guardrails

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) to help build responsible, scalable AI systems and platforms. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product teams to deliver AI-powered products that enhance customer experiences and internal workflows.

The role emphasizes foundation model optimization, governance, and observability, with opportunities to mentor leaders and shape a broad AI architecture roadmap across Capital One.