Distinguished AI Engineer

Capital One is building responsible, scalable AI systems that help improve experiences for both customers and associates. As a Distinguished AI Engineer on the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, you will help translate AI research and engineering best practices into end-to-end production capabilities, including foundational AI and LLM tooling.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that shape how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components across the full lifecycle, including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
• Build solutions using a broad mix of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies, including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve production performance across scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long term roadmap for foundational AI systems at Capital One.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master’s degree plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
• At least 8 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Team and impact

The IFX team brings Capital One’s AI vision to life. You will work with partners across the organization to advance the state of the art in science and AI engineering, and to build and deploy proprietary solutions that deliver value to millions of customers. The team’s AI models and platforms enable other teams to enhance products with AI in responsible and scalable ways, targeting high-leverage impact.

Benefits

• Health insurance and financial and other benefits supporting your total well-being.
• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).

Salary and location

Location: McLean, VA (onsite)

Salary: USD 269,100 - 307,200 per year

Compensation is location-based. Candidates hired for other locations will be offered the pay range associated with that location, and the annualized salary amount is reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.