Lead AI Engineer (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Agent Guardrails, Agent Evaluation, Agent Memory)
Capital OneBase Salary
$197k - $246k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI components for foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Use open-source and SaaS AI technologies to build generative AI platform services.
- Develop state-of-the-art LLM training and inference optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least four years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a relevant master’s degree plus at least two years of that experience.
- At least four years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
- Preferred: six years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms.
- Preferred: experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services.
- Preferred: experience developing AI and ML technologies such as LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, guardrails, and memory using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang.
- Preferred: experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
- Preferred: familiarity with current AI research and applying novel techniques in production.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization.
Benefits
- Capital One offers health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, potentially including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The position is offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; McLean, Virginia; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; San Jose, California, and potentially other locations with location-specific pay ranges.
About Capital One
At Capital One, we're making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration. We were founded on the belief that everyone deserves financial freedom—and are dedicated to a world where all have equal opportunity to prosper. Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. We always think about what’s next—and how we can bring our customers the tools needed to improve their financial lives. Your ideas, experiences and skills will help make banking better. You’ll be part of a supportive culture while earning amazing benefits. That’s life at Capital One. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. View our Social Media Community Guidelines https://www.capitalone.com/digital/social-media/