AI Engineer 4

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CAMcLean, VACambridge, MANew York, NY
Employment
Full-time
Posted
49 days ago
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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

Capital One Financial currently has 2276 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · AI Engineer 4

The AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop responsible and reliable AI systems for banking. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support 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 role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside experience with AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch. You will solve technical problems related to scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production AI systems, translating scientific research into production-ready solutions that enhance customer interactions and internal workflows.

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What you'll do

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
  • Build and manage 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 technical reviews for new AI deployments to ensure security, data governance, and compliance standards.
  • Mentor senior associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and translating research into production.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of AI/ML experience.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 2 years of AI/ML experience.
  • 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/ML algorithms like LLM Inference, Similarity Search, and VectorDBs 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).

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