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Distinguished AI Engineer

at Capital One Financial

📍 5 Locations Unknown 💰 $269K – $307K USD / year Posted March 31, 2026
Salary $269K – $307K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 6-8 years
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields
Category AI & Machine Learning

Distinguished AI Engineer to lead AI/ML initiatives, architect and deliver production-grade AI systems, and mentor engineering teams across multiple locations for Capital One.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that change how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One
  • 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
  • Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch
  • Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve performance
  • Contribute to the technical vision and long term roadmap of foundational AI systems

Expertise with foundation models, LLM optimization, guardrails, vector databases, PyTorch, HuggingFace, and cloud deployment. Proficient in Python, Go, Scala, Java and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

The ideal candidate is a distinguished AI engineer with 6-8+ years of AI/ML experience, deep expertise in foundation models and LLMs, strong cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure), and a proven ability to lead and mentor multiple teams while influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceAIElectrical EngineeringComputer Engineeringor related fields plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologiesor a Master's degree in Computer ScienceAIElectrical EngineeringComputer Engineeringor related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologiesAt least 8 years of experience programming with PythonGoScalaor Java
8 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWSGoogle CloudAzureor equivalent private cloud)Experience architectingdesigningdevelopingintegratingdeliveringand supporting complex AI systemsDemonstrated ability to lead and mentor multiple engineering teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders up to the VP levelExperience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM InferenceSimilarity Search and VectorDBsGuardrailsMemory) using PythonC++C#Javaor GolangExperience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilizationlatencythroughputand costExcellent communication and presentation skills
PythonGoScalaJavaC++C#GolangHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorchAWSAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformAzureKubernetesDocker
Bachelor's degree; 8+ years AI/ML; Python/Go/Scala/Java; AWS/Google Cloud/Azure; PyTorch; HuggingFace; VectorDBs; Nemo Guardrails; LLM Inference; Docker; Kubernetes; CI/CD; Agile
PythonGoScalaJava8 years of experienceKubernetesDockerAWSAmazon Web ServicesCloud platformsPyTorchHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsLLM Inference
TechnicalMentoringCommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Industry Banking
Job Function Lead AI engineering efforts to build scalable, responsible AI systems and platforms.
Role Subtype Data Analyst
Tech Domains Python, SQL / PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services, Power BI, Tableau
Distinguished AI EngineerAI EngineerArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learningfoundation model traininglarge language modelLLMguardrailsmodel evaluationexperimentationgovernanceobservabilityHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorchAWS UltraclustersPythonGoScalaJavaC++C#GolangAWSGoogle CloudAzurecloud platformsLLM optimizationLLM Inferenceproduction AI systems

Lack of cloud platform experience (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure), Less than 6 years of AI/ML experience (or 8+ with Bachelor’s), No experience with LLMs or agent tooling

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