CareerPlan

AI Engineer 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI)

San Jose, CA, USFull-time$197k–$246k2026-09-18 → 2026-11-11
Based in United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support foundational AI systems including LLM inference, agentic workflows, and optimization for scalable production environments.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (LLM Core & Agentic AI)

Builds

Proprietary AI platforms and services empowering Capital One's products with real-time, personalized customer experiences.

Domain

Financial Services / Large Language Models / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, Java, LLM Inference, VectorDBs, Guardrails, Model Optimization, Distributed Systems, GPU/TPU Utilization

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, PyTorch, VectorDBs, CUDA

Responsibilities

Design and optimize foundation model training and inference pipelines; Invent state-of-the-art optimization techniques for scalability and cost; Own end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems; Define and maintain SLOs for AI reliability; Collaborate with infrastructure to accelerate model inference; Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC