Distinguished AI Engineer

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of foundational AI systems and LLM-based components. This onsite role in McLean, Virginia places you at the heart of shaping optimization and long-term AI strategy across cross-functional teams serving both associates and customers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI powered products that transform how our associates work and how customers engage 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.
• Utilize a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.
• Invent and apply state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to enhance production AI systems in terms of performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
• 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 with at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies; or a Master’s degree in the same fields with at least 6 years of experience in AI/ML development.
• At least 8 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

Technologies

• AWS Ultraclusters
• Hugging Face
• VectorDBs
• Nemo Guardrails
• PyTorch
• Python
• Go
• Scala
• Java

Benefits

• Health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI); incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Team Description

The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team sits at the core of Capital One's AI strategy. We partner with teams across the company to push forward AI science and engineering, building and deploying proprietary solutions that are central to the business and deliver value to millions of customers. Our AI models and platforms empower collaborators across Capital One to enhance products with the transformative power of AI.

The Ideal Candidate

• You enjoy building robust systems, take pride in code quality, and share a commitment to doing the right thing. You aim to tackle problems that can advance banking for good.
• You stay current with the latest research and can translate scientific publications into production-ready techniques.
• You adapt quickly, bring clarity to large, undefined problems, ask insightful questions, and communicate findings concisely. You are willing to propose new ideas even if not yet proven.
• You are deeply technical with a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI helps you identify optimization opportunities others may miss.
• You are a resilient trailblazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is uncertain.