Senior Lead AI Engineer, Gen AI Platform Services

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose, CASan Francisco, CAMcLean, VA
Salary
$229,900–$262,400 / yr
Posted
49 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $246k
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This role pays more than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $169,500–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $208k 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.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead AI Engineer, Gen AI Platform Services

As a Senior Lead AI Engineer (Gen AI Platform Services) within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, you will partner with cross-functional teams of engineers, research scientists, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support critical software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. To achieve these goals, you will utilize a technical stack featuring AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch while implementing state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large scale production systems. You will leverage Python, Go, Scala, C++, or Java to solve complex problems in the banking domain by building robust infrastructure that enables responsible and scalable AI capabilities for customers and internal associates.

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 for production 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 production techniques for large-scale AI infrastructure.
  • Lead and mentor an engineering team while influencing cross-functional stakeholders to deliver AI products.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of experience developing AI/ML algorithms.
  • At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • Experience designing, developing, and supporting complex AI systems 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts clearly to peers.

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