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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
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Listed pay typically runs
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The AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop proprietary AI solutions for banking. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components. Key responsibilities include foundation model training, large language model inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, and observability. You will invent optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production systems. The role requires expertise in Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java, alongside tools like AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, and VectorDBs. You will also manage cost-performance governance, lead design councils, and mentor other engineers. This role solves complex problems in building responsible, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure for enterprise-level banking services.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 82 postings across 11 companies.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including LLM inference, agents, and multi-agent workflows.
Implement foundation model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production systems.
Design and optimize multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models.
Lead cost-performance governance reviews to track GPU utilization, model throughput, and inference cost efficiency.
Lead 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 experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
Master's Degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
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 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).
Python
Go
Scala
CUDA
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
AWS
Huggingface
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Agentic Workflows
Similarity Search
Model Optimization
Google Cloud
Azure