AI Engineer 5, Gen AI Platform Services

Capital One Financial

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On-site
Location
New York, NYSan Francisco, CASan Jose, CARichmond, VA
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Full-time
Posted
17 days ago
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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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TL;DR · AI Engineer 5, Gen AI Platform Services

The AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop proprietary AI solutions that power core business functions. You will design, develop, test, and deploy AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, and guardrails. Your daily work involves optimizing performance for scalability, cost, and latency while leading cost-performance governance reviews and mentoring other engineers. You will utilize a technical stack including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, and Java. This role addresses the technical challenge of integrating heterogeneous AI systems, such as retrieval-augmented and generative components, into unified production pipelines to provide responsible, high-performance AI infrastructure for banking services.

What does a AI Engineer earn in New York?

Median $228325 from 60 postings across 10 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 scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production AI.
  • Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews tracking GPU utilization 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 at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • 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 or technologies using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang (preferred).
  • Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).

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