CareerPlan

AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations: LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning)

New York, NY, USFull-time$197k–$246k2026-09-18 → 2026-11-11
Based in United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, and multi-agent workflows for banking applications.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (LLM & RL)

Builds

Proprietary AI solutions and platforms for Capital One's banking products

Domain

Financial Services / Large Language Models / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Go, CUDA, PyTorch, VectorDBs, LLM Inference, Model Optimization, Distributed Systems, GPU/TPU Utilization, SLO Definition, Technical Mentoring

Preferred skills

Leading AI system development, Cloud platform deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure), Agentic AI workflows, Petabyte-scale inference design, AI model governance

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, CUDA

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model optimization techniques; Own end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems; Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to optimize GPU/TPU utilization; Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design and research-to-production translation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC