Sr. Staff AI Engineer
Capital One1 day ago
Cambridge, MA, USA +5 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$286k - $392k/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 including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Develop optimization techniques that improve the scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization of production AI systems.
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.
- Establish company-wide AI performance, safety, transparency, alignment, and governance standards.
- Drive multi-year initiatives unifying data, compute, and model lifecycle management under an enterprise AI architecture.
- Mentor senior technical leaders and influence engineering, research, policy, risk, legal, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a master's degree in one of these fields plus at least 8 years of relevant experience.
- At least 10 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience architecting AI platforms and making tradeoff decisions involving cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
- Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms.
- Experience architecting, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems.
- Experience developing AI and ML technologies such as LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, guardrails, and memory.
- Experience optimizing training and inference software and building agentic AI systems and workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and influence stakeholders up to the SVP level.
- Recognized industry leadership in applied AI or ML infrastructure through patents, publications, or open-source leadership.
- Experience developing long-term AI infrastructure strategies and driving adoption of AI safety, alignment, and governance standards.
- Ability to shape R&D investment strategy and right-size models, instances, and hardware for system requirements.
Benefits
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- The role offers comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- The position is posted for a minimum of 5 business days and includes reasonable accommodation support.
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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.