AI Engineer 5
Capital One2 days ago
Cambridge, MA, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$230k - $286k/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 including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance, and observability.
- Develop foundation model optimization techniques and multi-model orchestration pipelines to improve scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and performance.
- Lead cost-performance governance reviews tracking GPU utilization, model throughput, and inference cost efficiency.
- Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems.
- Lead design councils or review boards to ensure technical consistency and compliance with AI engineering standards.
- Mentor Principal- and Manager-level AI engineers and elevate organizational technical maturity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a relevant master's degree plus at least 4 years of such experience.
- At least 6 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience leading AI system development with tradeoffs involving cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
- Preferred experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud platforms.
- Experience designing, developing, delivering, supporting, architecting, and integrating complex AI systems and heterogeneous production pipelines.
- Experience with LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, memory, agentic AI systems, and agentic workflows.
- Experience optimizing training and inference software, right-sizing models and infrastructure, and balancing model performance with operational cost.
- Experience defining and enforcing standards for ethical AI deployment, including explainability, fairness, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to understand and apply AI research, and ability to articulate complex AI concepts.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being, with eligibility varying by employment status and management level.
- Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- Full-time annual base salary ranges from $229,900 to $286,200 depending on location.
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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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.