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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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JOB TITLE: AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations, VLM Customization)
The AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations, VLM Customization) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions. You will design, develop, test, 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 PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and AWS Ultraclusters. You will solve technical problems related to model performance, scalability, and cost for production AI systems, translating scientific research into scalable production environments to enhance banking products and customer interactions through responsible and reliable AI infrastructure.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 100 postings across 17 companies.
Design, develop, test, and deploy AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Build and support multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation systems.
Implement foundation model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production 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 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 AI deployments meet 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 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).