Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible)
Capital One1 day ago
Remote, United States +5 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$245k - $335k/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 including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Invent and apply foundation-model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Set technical direction and define enterprise-wide architecture, tooling, observability, deployment, and governance standards for AI systems.
- Own model routing, caching, and orchestration systems supporting hybrid and multi-model workloads.
- Champion responsible AI principles, including transparency, reproducibility, and fairness-by-design.
- Lead internal education, mentorship, architecture councils, and AI guild knowledge sharing.
- Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders through the VP level.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a master's degree in one of those fields plus at least 6 years of such experience.
- At least 8 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience designing AI systems with cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy tradeoffs.
- Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud.
- Experience architecting, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems.
- Experience with LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, memory, agentic AI systems, and agentic workflows.
- Experience optimizing training and inference software and right-sizing models, instances, and hardware.
- Experience defining enterprise AI architecture standards, data pipeline governance, observability, evaluation frameworks, federated or multi-cloud AI strategies, and research-to-production processes.
- Demonstrated ability to define AI north-star metrics balancing business value, innovation velocity, cost, and ethical responsibility.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, plus a passion for applying current AI research and novel techniques in production.
Benefits
- Remote work is eligible for this position.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Capital One offers comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
About Capital One
Capital One is a U.S. consumer and commercial bank that offers credit cards, checking and savings accounts, auto financing, and lending to small and large businesses. It earns revenue from interest income and interchange/fees across its card and banking products, and develops cloud-based digital services. Founded in 1994, Capital One is publicly traded on the NYSE (COF) and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.