Senior Lead AI Engineer, GenAI Platform

Capital One

AI Engineer developing AI-powered products and systems at Capital One. Collaborating with engineers and scientists to enhance banking through innovative AI technologies.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $229,900 - $286,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoJavaOpen 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 6 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 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java
7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)
Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI algorithmsML algorithmsPythonGoScalaJavaC++C#LLM InferenceSimilarity Search

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringinfluencing stakeholderscommunicationpresentation skills

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer Science