Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations)
Capital One1 day ago
Cambridge, MA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base 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 training, inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Use open-source and SaaS AI technologies to build foundational AI systems.
- Invent and introduce LLM training and inference optimization techniques that improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems at Capital One.
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 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, vector databases, guardrails, and memory using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang.
- Preferred: experience developing and applying advanced techniques to optimize training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
- Preferred: ability to understand scientific publications and apply novel AI research techniques in production.
Benefits
- Capital One offers comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting employees' total well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The posting lists work locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and San Jose, California.
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.