Senior Lead AI Engineer
Core
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support foundational AI systems including foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, and guardrails to empower Capital One's products and customer experiences.
Role type
Senior Lead AI Engineer (Applied Science & Engineering)
Builds
Proprietary AI platforms and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure for banking products
Domain
Financial Services / Applied AI / Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM optimization, foundation model training, similarity search, vector databases, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, observability, system design, Python, Go, Scala, Java
Preferred skills
Cloud platform deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure), leading and mentoring engineering teams, hardware utilization optimization, applying novel research techniques to production
Technologies
AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch
Responsibilities
Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques; Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities