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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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Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations, VLM Customization) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that enhance products for millions of customers. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, test, and support software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability. The engineer will implement state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance metrics like scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production systems. Key technologies include PyTorch, Huggingface, Nemo Guardrails, VectorDBs, and AWS Ultraclusters. Candidates must possess expertise in Python, Go, Scala, or Java, alongside a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics. The role focuses on solving complex technical problems by applying recent scientific research to build robust, high-performance AI infrastructure within the banking sector.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Implement similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, and observability for production AI systems.
Develop state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
Utilize a broad stack of technologies including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
Translate complex scientific research into practical, high-performance production features.
Solve large, undefined problems by identifying root causes and providing clear technical solutions.
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.
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services (preferred).
Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure (preferred).
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms such as LLM Inference, Similarity Search, VectorDBs, and Guardrails using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
Experience applying state-of-the-art techniques to optimize training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).
Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and judiciously applying novel techniques in production (preferred).