Capital One

Senior Staff AI Engineer - Agentic AI Platform (Remote Eligible)

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3 days ago
Remote, United States +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 foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability components.
  • 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 tradeoffs involving cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
  • Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms, including 9+ years preferred.
  • Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems.
  • Experience with LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, guardrails, memory, agentic AI systems, and agentic workflows.
  • Experience optimizing training and inference software and right-sizing models, instances, and hardware.
  • Ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and influence stakeholders up to the SVP level.
  • Experience developing long-term AI infrastructure strategies and driving AI safety, alignment, governance, regulatory compliance, and organization-wide adoption.
  • Recognized industry leadership in applied AI or machine learning infrastructure through patents, publications, or open-source leadership.
  • Ability to shape R&D investment strategy and communicate complex AI concepts effectively.

Benefits

  • Remote work is available for this opportunity.
  • Capital One offers health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee 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.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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About Capital One

10,000+ employees

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.

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