Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

Capital One Financial

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Remote

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Work type: Remote
Location: McLean, VARichmond, VA
Salary: $244,700–$279,200 / yr
Posted: 10 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $214k

This role $262k

$165k most similar roles pay here $291k

This role pays more than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $177,656–$251,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $262k versus about $214k 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.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

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Staff Engineer - Agentic AI (Remote-Eligible) joins the Business Cards & Payment team to transition marketing and sales tools from manual processes toward an agentic future. This role involves defining long-term technical strategy, prototyping, launching, and scaling agentic systems such as real-time personalized marketing platforms and autonomous sales agents that self-improve via RLAIF. The engineer will serve as a trusted advisor on architecture, evaluate build versus buy decisions, and mentor the engineering community while ensuring system performance and scalability. Required skills include extensive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud computing with AWS. Preferred qualifications include expertise in applied and agentic AI systems along with proficiency in programming languages like Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift to solve complex problems within the business card and payment domain.

What does a Engineer earn in Remote?

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Skills

Agentic AI AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Python Java Go TypeScript JavaScript Swift Cloud Computing Design Patterns RLAIF Software Engineering

What you'll do

Prototype and assess new technologies for hyper-personalized marketing and assistive field sales systems.
Define long-term technical strategy and destination architecture for agentic AI platforms.
Develop and scale autonomous sales agents that self-improve via Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF).
Provide architectural guidance and design for large-scale, cross-domain programs.
Act as a trusted advisor on non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, and operability.
Mentor internal talent and provide technical leadership to the engineering and product community.
Create technical content including code samples and blog posts to share knowledge internally and externally.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
At least 3 years of experience with AWS.
10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud).
10+ years of experience coding in Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift.
10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development.
2+ years of experience working on applied and agentic AI systems.

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