Staff AI Engineer - Remote, Scalable AI Systems Leader

Capital One Group; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build responsible AI systems powering banking experiences. This role is remote eligible, with collaboration across the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team to advance AI at scale.

You will design and optimize AI pipelines, work with researchers and engineers, and drive education on best practices for enterprise AI across the company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in a relevant field with multiple years of AI/ML experience.
• At least 8 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that transform how associates work and customers interact with Capital One.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components across foundation model training, inference, agents, and governance.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI tech such as AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, VectorDBs, PyTorch.
• Invent optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of large-scale AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
• Set technical direction for enterprise AI architecture and deployment standards.
• Own design/integration of model routing, caching, and orchestration for hybrid workloads.
• Champion responsible AI principles with transparency, reproducibility, and fairness-by-design.
• Drive internal education, mentorship, and knowledge sharing through AI councils and guilds.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

CUDA

Java

Education

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

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

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

HuggingFace

PyTorch

VectorDBs

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to build responsible AI systems powering banking experiences. This role is remote eligible, with collaboration across the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team to advance AI at scale.

You will design and optimize AI pipelines, work with researchers and engineers, and drive education on best practices for enterprise AI across the company.