Senior Lead AI Engineer

Capital One Financial

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On-site
Location
McLean, VASan Francisco, CACambridge, MASan Jose, CANew York, NY
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Full-time
Posted
101 days ago
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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 · Senior Lead AI Engineer

The Senior Lead AI Engineer (MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services) joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to advance the state of the art in AI engineering. You will partner with cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, and support ML software components, including distributed model training, inference, model orchestration, and observability. The role involves inventing state-of-the-art ETL and ML optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large-scale production systems. You will utilize a broad stack of technologies including Kubernetes, Kubeflow pipelines, Ray, Polars, Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, and C#. This position focuses on building proprietary solutions and scalable AI infrastructure to solve complex technical problems and deliver responsible, high-performance AI products for banking services.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, test, and support ML software components including distributed model training and inference.
  • Implement model orchestration and observability systems for production environments.
  • Utilize open-source and SaaS technologies like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Ray, and Polars.
  • Develop ETL and ML optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of ML systems.
  • Apply state-of-the-art research and novel techniques to production AI systems.
  • Lead and mentor an engineering team while influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6 years of AI/ML experience.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 4 years of AI/ML experience.
  • At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • 7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
  • Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders (preferred).
  • Experience developing AI/ML algorithms like LLM Inference, Similarity Search, and VectorDBs using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
  • Experience applying techniques to optimize training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).

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