AI Engineer 5

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CAMcLean, VACambridge, MANew York, NY
Salary
$229,900–$262,400 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
48 days ago
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Above market

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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 2253 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 1137 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AI Engineer 5

JOB TITLE: AI Engineer 5 The AI Engineer 5 joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that power core business functions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, test, and support AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, and guardrails. You will invent optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, and latency for production systems while leading cost-performance governance reviews and mentoring other engineers. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside experience with AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, and VectorDBs. You will solve complex technical problems by integrating LLMs and domain-specific models into unified pipelines to deliver responsible, high-performance AI infrastructure for banking services.

What does a AI Engineer earn in California?

Median $246150 from 106 postings across 18 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.
  • Implement multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models into unified systems.
  • Invent and introduce state-of-the-art optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, and latency of production AI.
  • Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews to track GPU utilization, model throughput, and inference cost efficiency.
  • Lead team design councils to ensure technical consistency and compliance with AI engineering standards.
  • Mentor Principal and Manager-level AI engineers to foster cross-domain learning and elevate organizational technical maturity.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6 years of AI/ML experience.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of AI/ML experience.
  • At least 6 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).
  • 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 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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