Sr. Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible)

Capital One is a financial services company developing responsible and reliable AI systems to transform banking experiences. The Sr. Staff AI Engineer will lead the design, development, deployment, and optimization of foundational AI systems, establish company-wide AI standards, shape long-term architecture, and mentor technical leaders.

Responsibilities:

• 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, agents and multi-agent workflows, 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, PyTorch, and more
• Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model 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
• Define and steer the technical AI architecture vision, integrating applied research breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale
• Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards that guide all model development and deployment company-wide
• Drive multi-year platform initiatives that unify data, compute and model lifecycle management under and cohesive enterprise AI architecture
• Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering disciplines, developing the next generation of Capital One’s AI technical leadership