AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations)
Capital One3 days ago
McLean, VA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$215k - $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, agents, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Develop optimization techniques for production AI systems to improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Own end-to-end architecture and contribute to the technical vision and roadmap for foundational AI systems.
- Define and maintain service-level objectives for AI reliability, including latency, uptime, and model performance drift.
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and model inference pipelines.
- Lead technical reviews for AI deployments and ensure security, data governance, compliance, and ethical standards are met.
- Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and research-to-production translation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a relevant master's degree plus at least 2 years of such experience.
- At least 4 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience leading AI system development with tradeoffs involving cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
- Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms, with six years of cloud AI experience preferred.
- Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services and distributed systems for model training, evaluation, and online inference.
- Experience with AI and ML technologies such as LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, and memory.
- Experience optimizing training and inference software, building agentic AI systems and workflows, and applying current AI research in production.
- Experience defining AI model governance processes and influencing architectural decisions across AI product lines or platforms.
Benefits
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including 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.
- The position is full-time, with location-based annual salary ranges for McLean, New York, and San Jose.
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.