AI Engineer 4
Capital One1 day ago
Cambridge, MA, USA +3 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, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Develop optimization techniques that improve the scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization of production AI systems.
- Own end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems and contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI platforms.
- 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 accelerate model inference pipelines.
- Lead technical reviews for AI deployments and ensure security, data governance, compliance, maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment.
- Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and translating research into production.
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 master's degree in one of these fields plus at least 2 years of relevant experience.
- At least 4 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience leading AI system development with tradeoff decisions involving cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
- Preferred experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms, with 6+ years preferred.
- Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services.
- Experience with AI and ML technologies such as LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, and memory using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang.
- Experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
- Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows.
- Proficiency designing distributed systems for model training, evaluation, and online inference at petabyte scale.
- Experience defining AI model governance processes, including producibility, lineage tracking, and automated retraining schedules.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple AI product lines or platforms.
- Ability to understand scientific publications and apply novel AI techniques in production.
Benefits
- Capital One offers health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being, with eligibility varying by employment and management status.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including potential cash bonuses and long-term incentives.
- The listed annual salary ranges vary by location: $197,300-$225,100 in Cambridge and McLean, and $215,200-$245,600 in New York, San Francisco, and San Jose.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The position is full-time and is expected to accept applications for at least 5 business days.
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.