AI Engineer 4

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cambridge, MAMcLean, VASan Jose, CANew York, NY
Salary
$197,300–$225,100 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $192,050–$211,200 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $211k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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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 1917 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1045 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · AI Engineer 4

The AI Engineer 4 joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to build and deploy proprietary AI solutions central to the business. You will partner with cross-functional teams to 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 invent optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, and latency for large-scale production systems while owning end-to-end architecture for maintainability and ethical alignment. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside experience with AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch. You will solve complex technical problems involving GPU/TPU utilization, model performance drift, and data governance to deliver reliable, high-performance AI infrastructure.

What does a AI Engineer earn in Massachusetts?

Median $246150 from 61 postings across 4 companies.

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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 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 environments.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field plus 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field 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).

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