Senior Lead AI Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VASan Francisco, CACambridge, MASan Jose, CANew York, NY
Salary
$229,900–$262,400 / yr
Posted
44 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $246k
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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

As a Senior Lead AI Engineer (MLXT) within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, you will drive critical technical initiatives to transform business analysis experiences in a highly regulated environment. You will modernize the core Analyst and AIML workflow orchestration layer by integrating frontier generative AI capabilities and self-serve tools to enable low-code or no-code development for domain experts. Your daily work involves building agentic-driven infrastructure, scaling managed AutoML offerings for tabular and time-series data, and engineering automated governance frameworks. To succeed, you must possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics while utilizing Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, or C#. You will apply state-of-the-art techniques like LLM inference, similarity search, and vector databases to optimize training and inference software for improved hardware utilization, latency, and throughput.

What you'll do

  • Modernize the orchestration layer and user interface with generative AI capabilities and self-serve tooling.
  • Develop low-code and no-code tools to democratize AI development for business domain experts.
  • Build reliable, scalable, and secure agentic infrastructure that adheres to enterprise guardrails.
  • Scale enterprise-grade managed AutoML offerings for tabular and time-series data to reduce time-to-market.
  • Engineer automated governance frameworks and cutting-edge components for the core marketplace.
  • Optimize training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
  • Translate complex scientific research into production-ready AI systems and technologies.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • A Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is accepted as an alternative to a Bachelor's.
  • Candidates with a Bachelor's degree must have at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • Candidates with a Master's degree must have at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java is required.
  • Preferred experience includes 7 years of deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • Experience in designing, developing, and supporting complex AI systems including LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, and guardrails is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams, mentor others, and influence cross-functional stakeholders is preferred.

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