Senior Staff AI Engineer — Remote-Ready, Scalable AI

Capital One; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer to drive AI-powered products with a cross-functional team, delivering scalable foundation models and intelligent experiences for customers and associates.

You will design, implement, test, and deploy AI software components, optimize performance and cost, set safety standards, and mentor engineers while shaping Capital One's long-term AI infrastructure strategy. This remote-eligible role offers broad impact within the bank.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE with 8–10+ years AI/ML experience.
• 10+ years of Python/Go/Scala/CUDA/Java programming.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-powered products with cross-functional teams.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components (LLMs, agents, vector search, etc.).
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tools (AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, PyTorch).
• Lead foundation model optimization for scale, latency and cost.
• Contribute to long-term AI architecture vision and roadmap.
• Establish AI performance, safety, and transparency standards.
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives for data, compute, model lifecycle.
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data, engineering.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/EE/CE

Tools

AWS

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Staff AI Engineer to drive AI-powered products with a cross-functional team, delivering scalable foundation models and intelligent experiences for customers and associates.

You will design, implement, test, and deploy AI software components, optimize performance and cost, set safety standards, and mentor engineers while shaping Capital One's long-term AI infrastructure strategy. This remote-eligible role offers broad impact within the bank.