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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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Director, AI Engineering joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop responsible, scalable AI infrastructure for banking services. This role involves overseeing the design, development, testing, and deployment of critical software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability. You will manage a cross-functional team of engineers and scientists while making high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a stack featuring PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and AWS Ultraclusters. The position focuses on building the infrastructure layer between applications and foundation models to optimize for latency, reliability, and cost efficiency. You will implement state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques and manage the technical roadmap for foundational systems. The work addresses the challenge of providing a governed interface for model access while ensuring high performance in production environments.
Agentic AI
LLM
Machine Learning
PyTorch
Huggingface
VectorDBs
Nemo Guardrails
AWS
Model Evaluation
Similarity Search
AI Infrastructure
SaaS
Open Source