Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations: LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)
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 software components for foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Use open-source and SaaS AI technologies to build foundational AI systems.
- Invent and apply LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Capital One’s 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 master’s degree in one of these fields plus at least two years of relevant 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 such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or an equivalent private cloud.
- Preferred: experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services.
- Preferred: experience developing AI and ML technologies such as LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, and memory using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang.
- Preferred: experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
- Ability to understand current AI research and apply novel techniques in production.
Benefits
- Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Capital One offers health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization.
- The role is posted across Cambridge, McLean, New York, San Francisco, and San Jose, with other locations subject to the applicable local pay range.
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/