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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 ( MLX, Gen AI Platform Services, Agentic AI) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary solutions that power core business functions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, research scientists, and product managers to build AI-powered products while designing, testing, and supporting software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability. The role involves implementing state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance metrics like scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production systems. You will utilize a technical stack featuring PyTorch, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and AWS Ultraclusters. Required skills include proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, or Java, alongside expertise in hardware and software optimization to solve complex problems within the banking domain by creating scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure for customer interactions.
Design, develop, test, and deploy AI software components including foundation model training and LLM inference.
Implement similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, and observability for production AI systems.
Apply state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
Utilize a broad stack of technologies including Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and AWS Ultraclusters.
Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
Translate complex scientific research into practical, production-ready AI solutions.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields with at least 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms.
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services including LLM inference, similarity search, and vector databases.
Experience applying state-of-the-art techniques to optimize training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
Ability to interpret scientific publications and apply novel research techniques in production environments.
Strong foundation in engineering and mathematics to identify and exploit optimization opportunities in hardware and software.
Python
Go
Scala
Java
C++
C#
PyTorch
Huggingface
AWS
VectorDBs
LLM Inference
Nemo Guardrails
Machine Learning
Gen AI
Similarity Search
Model Evaluation
Observability