Lead AI Engineer – Gen AI Platform Services

Capital One

Lead AI Engineer delivering AI-powered products that transform customer interactions at Capital One. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and leveraging advanced AI technologies for impactful solutions.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $215,200 - $245,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoJavaOpen SourcePythonPyTorchScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI software developmentmachine learning algorithmslarge language model inferencefoundation model trainingsimilarity searchmodel evaluationgovernanceobservabilityprogramming in Pythonprogramming in Go

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in AIBachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringMaster's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in AIMaster's degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster's degree in Computer Engineering