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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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As an AI Engineer 4 on the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, you will develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that are central to the business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, test, and support software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. Your daily work involves optimizing performance metrics like latency, throughput, and cost while ensuring ethical alignment and governance for high-performance systems. You will utilize a technical stack featuring PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and AWS Ultraclusters. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java to solve complex problems in the banking domain. You will also mentor others on scalable design and research-to-production translation while managing end-to-end architecture for large-scale production AI systems.
What does a AI Engineer earn in New York?
Median $246150 from 66 postings across 9 companies.
Design, develop, test, and deploy AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Implement agentic workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation systems for production use.
Develop optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of large-scale AI systems.
Own the end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems while ensuring maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment.
Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for AI reliability including uptime and model performance drift.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate inference pipelines.
Lead 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.
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/ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 2 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Experience leading development of AI systems with trade-offs regarding 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 vector databases using various programming languages (preferred).
Experience optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization and performance (preferred).
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Evaluation
Similarity Search
SaaS
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Multi-agent Workflows
Similarity Search
C++
Scala
Java
C#
Model Optimization
Machine Learning
AI Engineering
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Evaluation
Similarity Search
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic AI
Distributed Systems
C++
Java
Scala
C#
Machine Learning
Model Optimization
Similarity Search
SaaS
Python
Go
CUDA
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Multi-agent Workflows
Similarity Search
C++
Scala
Java
C#
Model Optimization
Machine Learning
AI Engineering