Staff AI Engineer: Lead Scalable AI Systems

COMFORT SYSTEMS; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff AI Engineer to contribute to responsible and scalable AI systems across consumer banking products. You will work with engineers, researchers, PMs, and data scientists to build AI-powered features and platforms.

The role emphasizes foundation model training, inference, guardrails, evaluation, and observability, using a broad stack including PyTorch and SaaS tools. Strong technical leadership is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, AI, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related fields with 6–8+ years of AI/ML experience.
• 8+ years programming in Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components.
• Leverage OSS and SaaS AI tech (AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch).
• Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques for production AI systems.
• Contribute to the long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

Job description

Capital One seeks a Staff AI Engineer to contribute to responsible and scalable AI systems across consumer banking products. You will work with engineers, researchers, PMs, and data scientists to build AI-powered features and platforms.

The role emphasizes foundation model training, inference, guardrails, evaluation, and observability, using a broad stack including PyTorch and SaaS tools. Strong technical leadership is expected.