Lead AI Engineer – AI Foundations, LLM Core
Capital One
AWSAzureCloudGoJavaOpen SourcePythonPyTorchScala
Senior AI Engineer – Gen AI Platform Services, Agentic Systems
Capital One
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $158,600 - $197,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoJavaOpen SourcePythonPyTorchScala
About the role
- 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.
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 3 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 1 year of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
- At least 3 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java
- 4 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud) (preferred)
- Experience developing, delivering, and supporting AI services (preferred)
- 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 (preferred)
- Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive benefits that support total well-being
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Hard skills
AI software developmentML algorithmsPythonGoScalaJavaC++C#LLM optimization techniquesmodel evaluation
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer Science
