This role pays more than
84%
of similar roles. Most pay
$205,000–$287,725
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$306k
versus about
$246k
for comparable roles.
Based on 239 similar postings.
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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.
Sr Director, AI Engineering joins the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to develop and deploy proprietary solutions that power core business functions. This role involves overseeing the design, development, testing, and support of critical AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, and observability. The successful candidate will make high-judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a stack featuring AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch. You will implement LLM optimization techniques to improve performance metrics like scalability, cost, latency, and throughput while managing a team of engineers and scientists. The role requires expertise in Python, C++, C#, or Golang to solve complex problems within the banking sector. You will contribute to the long-term technical roadmap for foundational AI systems to enhance how customers interact with financial services.
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