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About Capital One Financial
Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking
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The AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop proprietary AI solutions central to the business. This role involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. You will own end-to-end architecture for complex systems, ensuring maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment while optimizing GPU/TPU utilization. The position requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside experience with AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch. You will solve technical problems regarding scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production AI systems. The work focuses on creating responsible, high-performance AI infrastructure to enhance products and improve how customers interact with banking services.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 100 postings across 17 companies.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Build and maintain agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation systems.
Implement state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production AI systems.
Own the end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems to ensure maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment.
Define and maintain service-level objectives for AI reliability, including latency, uptime, and model performance drift.
Optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate model inference pipelines in collaboration with infrastructure engineering.
Lead cross-functional technical reviews to ensure new AI deployments meet security, data governance, and compliance standards.
Mentor senior associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and translating research into production systems.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Experience leading development of AI systems with tradeoff decisions around cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy (preferred).
6 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services (preferred).
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang (preferred).
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software (preferred).
Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
AWS
Huggingface
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Distributed Systems
GPU
TPU
Similarity Search
Model Evaluation
Observability
Data Governance
Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
Google Cloud
Azure
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Distributed Systems
Model Evaluation
Observability
GPU
TPU