Lead AI Engineer

Capital One Financial

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On-site
Location
Cambridge, MAMcLean, VASan Jose, CANew York, NY
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Full-time
Posted
140 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 · Lead AI Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations, LLM Customization and Finetuning) The Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations, LLM Customization and Finetuning) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to build and deploy proprietary AI solutions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and support AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. You will invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large-scale production systems. The role requires proficiency with Python, Go, Scala, or Java, alongside tools like AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch. You will solve technical problems related to creating responsible, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure to enhance products and customer interactions within the banking sector.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
  • Implement similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability systems.
  • Utilize open-source and SaaS technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
  • Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
  • Apply novel techniques from scientific publications to production environments to solve undefined problems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor'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.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • 6 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
  • Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services (preferred).
  • Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
  • Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software (preferred).
  • Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems (preferred).

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