Staff AI Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CAMcLean, VACambridge, MASan Jose, CARichmond, VANew York, NY
Employment
Full-time
Posted
60 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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 2107 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff AI Engineer

The Staff AI Engineer role sits within the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team, where you will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components, including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Your daily work involves inventing state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for large-scale production systems. You will utilize a broad stack including AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Scala, or Java. You will solve complex technical problems by building scalable, responsible AI infrastructure and foundational systems to enhance banking products and customer interactions.

What does a AI Engineer earn in California?

Median $246150 from 100 postings across 17 companies.

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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 systems.
  • Utilize open-source and SaaS technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
  • Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput.
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
  • Translate scientific publications into production-ready AI techniques and scalable solutions.
  • Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams while influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or AI plus 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • Master's degree plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • At least 8 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • 8 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (preferred).
  • Experience architecting, designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders up to the VP level (preferred).
  • Experience developing AI and ML algorithms using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang (preferred).
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field (preferred).

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