Senior Director, AI Engineering Agentic AI Platform

Capital One Financial

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CAMcLean, VACambridge, MASan Jose, CA
Salary
$286,200–$326,700 / yr
Posted
51 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $306k
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $184,700–$260,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $306k versus about $223k for comparable roles.

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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 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, AI Engineering Agentic AI Platform

Senior Director, AI Engineering -Agentic AI Platform joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary AI solutions that enhance products for millions of customers. This role involves overseeing the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of critical software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. The position requires making high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a stack featuring AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch. You will implement state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large scale production systems. The role focuses on the technical vision of foundational AI systems while managing a team of engineers and scientists to solve complex problems in the banking sector through advanced machine learning and engineering.

What you'll do

  • Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of AI software components including LLM inference and guardrails.
  • Make high-judgment build-vs-buy decisions regarding open-source and SaaS AI technologies like Huggingface and VectorDBs.
  • Implement state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production systems.
  • Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for foundational AI systems at Capital One.
  • Attract, retain, and mentor top talent in the AI industry while fostering a culture of continuous learning.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that improve internal workflows and customer interactions.
  • Translate complex scientific research into practical, scalable production techniques for large-scale systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or AI with at least 10 years of experience developing or leading AI and ML algorithms.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field with at least 8 years of experience in AI/ML.
  • At least 5 years of people leadership experience.
  • 7 years of experience managing and leading an engineering team.
  • 8 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • Experience developing AI and ML technologies including LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, and guardrails.
  • Ability to interpret scientific publications and apply novel techniques in production environments.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate complex AI concepts to various stakeholders.

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