Sr. Distinguished AI Engineer

Capital One is building responsible, scalable AI capabilities through its Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team. In this role, you will help design and deliver AI software components that support foundation model training and LLM-powered experiences, with an emphasis on evaluation, governance, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how associates work and how 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.
• Use a broad stack of open source and SaaS AI technologies, including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Develop and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance across scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production AI systems.
• Help shape the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems at Capital One.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master’s degree plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
• At least 10 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Technologies

• AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch
• Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, C#, Golang
• AWS, Google Cloud, Azure

Team overview

The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team brings Capital One’s vision for AI to life. The team works with partners across the company 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. AI models and platforms developed within IFX empower teams across Capital One to enhance products with responsible, scalable AI.

Compensation and incentives

• Remote (regardless of location): $286,200 - $326,700 per year
• McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300 per year
• Performance-based incentive compensation eligibility, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.

Other information

• Expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• No agencies please.
• Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.
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