Staff AI Engineer — Remote, Scalable AI Systems

Capital One

Providence (RI)

Remote

USD 245,000 - 279,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One seeks a Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) to build responsible and scalable AI systems transforming banking at scale. You will partner with engineers, researchers, PMs, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products enhancing customer and associate experiences.

The role requires deep AI/ML expertise, system design, and production deployment knowledge, with strong Python/cloud experience and a track record leading teams. This is a remote-friendly, high-impact opportunity.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or AI plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or Master's degree plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
At least 8 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, 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, 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, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more
Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM 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