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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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AI Engineer 5 (AI Foundations: LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions for banking services. This role involves designing, testing, and supporting software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. The engineer will optimize production systems for performance, scalability, cost, and latency while leading governance reviews on GPU utilization and inference efficiency. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside experience with PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and AWS Ultraclusters. The position focuses on solving complex problems in the banking domain by integrating LLMs and retrieval-augmented components into unified pipelines to improve customer interactions and internal workflows through advanced model orchestration and state-of-the-art optimization techniques.
What does a AI Engineer earn in New York?
Median $246150 from 66 postings across 9 companies.
Develop and deploy AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, and multi-agent workflows.
Implement state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, and latency of production systems.
Design and optimize multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models.
Lead cost-performance governance reviews by tracking GPU utilization, model throughput, and inference efficiency.
Lead design councils to ensure technical consistency and compliance with AI engineering standards.
Mentor senior engineers to foster cross-domain learning and improve organizational technical maturity.
Translate complex research into production-ready features while ensuring ethical AI deployment and safety guardrails.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
At least 6 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).
7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems (preferred).
Experience developing AI/ML algorithms using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang (preferred).
Experience optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).
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