AI Engineer 5 (AI Foundations)
Core
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, and observability for Capital One's banking products.
Role type
Senior IC AI Engineer (AI Foundations)
Builds
Proprietary AI platforms and systems that empower teams across Capital One to enhance products with transformative AI capabilities.
Domain
Banking / Applied AI & Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Foundation model training, LLM inference, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, observability, foundation model optimization, multi-model orchestration, cost-performance governance, technical leadership, mentoring
Preferred skills
Leading development of AI systems with tradeoff decisions, deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms, designing complex AI systems, building agentic AI systems, architecting heterogeneous AI systems, enforcing ethical AI standards, balancing model performance and operational cost, right-sizing models and hardware
Technologies
AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, CUDA, Python, Go, Scala, Java, C++, C#
Responsibilities
Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; Design and optimize multi-model orchestration pipelines; Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews; Lead team design councils to ensure technical consistency; Mentor Principal and Manager-level AI engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
