Senior Staff AI Engineer — Remote Platform Architect

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to help build scalable AI foundations and production-ready ML systems. You will design and implement AI software components, set architecture direction, and mentor engineers working on AI across Capital One’s products.

You will contribute to safety, governance, and performance optimization while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver responsible AI capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 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 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
• At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, 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, agents and multi-agent workflows, 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, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model 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.
• Define and steer the technical AI architecture vision, integrating applied research breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale
• Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards that guide all model development and deployment company-wide
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives that unify data, compute and model lifecycle management under and cohesive enterprise AI architecture
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering disciplines, developing the next generation of Capital One’s AI technical leadership.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/AI/related fields

Master's degree in Computer Science/AI/related fields

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to help build scalable AI foundations and production-ready ML systems. You will design and implement AI software components, set architecture direction, and mentor engineers working on AI across Capital One’s products.

You will contribute to safety, governance, and performance optimization while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver responsible AI capabilities at scale.