Staff AI Engineer — Remote

Capital One; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer for a remote‑eligible role focusing on building responsible and scalable AI systems to transform banking experiences. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and leaders to deliver high-impact AI solutions across the business.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AI/ML, cloud deployment, and system optimization, and excels at communicating complex AI concepts to partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/EE/CE with 8+ years AI/ML experience, or Master's with 6+ years.
• 8+ years Python/Go/Scala/Java programming experience.
• Experience deploying AI on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

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 (e.g., AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs).
• Invent LLM optimization techniques to improve performance (latency, throughput, cost).
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term AI systems roadmap.

Skills

Python programming

Mentoring teams

System design

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS Ultraclusters

Huggingface

VectorDBs

Nemo Guardrails

PyTorch

LLM inference

Similarity search

Guardrails

Memory optimization

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer for a remote‑eligible role focusing on building responsible and scalable AI systems to transform banking experiences. You will collaborate with engineers, researchers, PMs, and leaders to deliver high-impact AI solutions across the business.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in AI/ML, cloud deployment, and system optimization, and excels at communicating complex AI concepts to partners.