Lead AI Engineer

Capital One Financial

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On-site
Location
McLean, VASan Jose, CARichmond, VANew York, NY
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Full-time
Posted
85 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 The Lead AI Engineer joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that power core business functions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, test, and support AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and model evaluation. Your daily work involves inventing state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large-scale production systems. You will utilize a technical stack including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch, while programming in Python, Go, Scala, or Java. This role solves the technical challenge of building responsible, scalable, and high-performance AI infrastructure to deliver real-time, personalized customer experiences within a banking context.

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 performance, 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.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
  • 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 using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
  • Experience applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software (preferred).
  • Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and judiciously applying novel techniques in production (preferred).

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