Senior AI Engineer; Remote Eligible

Position: Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) Senior Staff AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, Capital One has been an industry leader in using machine learning to create real-time, personalized customer experiences. Our investments in technology infrastructure and world‑class talent — along with our deep experience in machine learning — position us to be at the forefront of enterprises leveraging AI. From informing customers about unusual charges to answering their questions in real time, our applications of AI & ML are bringing humanity and simplicity to banking. We are committed to continuing to build world‑class applied science and engineering teams to deliver our industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high‑performance AI infrastructure. At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses who have come to love the products and services we build. Team Description: The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life. We work hand‑in‑hand with our partners across the company to advance the state of the art in science and AI engineering, and we build and deploy proprietary solutions that are central to our business and deliver value to millions of customers. Our AI models and platforms empower teams across Capital One to enhance their products with the transformative power of AI, in responsible and scalable ways for the highest leverage impact. What You’ll Do: • Partner with a cross‑functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI‑powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One. • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, agents and multi‑agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc. • Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultra clusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more. • Invent and introduce state‑of‑the‑art foundation model optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems. • Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One. • Define and steer the technical AI architecture vision, integrating applied research breakthroughs into production ecosystems with reliability and scale • Lead the establishment of AI performance, safety, and transparency standards that guide all model development and deployment company‑wide • Drive multi‑year platform initiatives that unify data, compute and model lifecycle management under and cohesive enterprise AI architecture • Mentor senior technical leaders across research, data and engineering disciplines, developing the next generation of Capital One’s AI technical leadership. Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies • At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java Preferred Qualifications: • Experience…