About the Role
Capital One is building responsible and reliable AI systems to transform banking. This role is central to advancing the state of the art in AI engineering and building proprietary solutions that deliver value to millions of customers. You will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses.
Responsibilities
- Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products.
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Make build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
- Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance of large-scale production AI systems.
- Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.
- Attract and retain top talent in the AI industry and nurture personal and professional development for your team.
- Foster a culture of learning and staying abreast of the state-of-the-art in AI.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or AI plus at least 10 years of experience developing or leading AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or Master's degree plus at least 8 years of experience developing or leading AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
- At least 5 years of people leadership experience.
- 7 years of experience managing and leading an engineering team.
- 8 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud).
- Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory).
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field.
- Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers.
Skills
- AI Engineering
- Machine Learning
- Foundation Model Training
- Large Language Model Inference
- Similarity Search
- Guardrails
- Model Evaluation
- Experimentation
- Governance
- Observability
- AWS Ultraclusters
- Huggingface
- VectorDBs
- Nemo Guardrails
- PyTorch
- LLM Optimization
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
Location
- Remote
- Cambridge, MA
- McLean, VA
- New York, NY
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 10+ years of experience developing or leading AI and ML algorithms or technologies
- 8+ years of experience developing or leading AI and ML algorithms or technologies
- 5+ years of people leadership experience
- 7 years of experience managing and leading an engineering team
- 8 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or AI
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or relevant technical field
Salary/Compensations
- Remote (Regardless of Location): $286,200 - $326,700
- Cambridge, MA: $314,800 - $359,300
- McLean, VA: $314,800 - $359,300
- New York, NY: $343,400 - $392,000
- San Francisco, CA: $343,400 - $392,000
- San Jose, CA: $343,400 - $392,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
- Eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
About the Company
- Capital One is creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good.
- Capital One has been an industry leader in using machine learning to create real-time, personalized customer experiences.
- Our investments in technology infrastructure and world-class talent position us to be at the forefront of enterprises leveraging AI.
- Our applications of AI & ML are bringing humanity and simplicity to banking.
- We are committed to continuing to build world-class applied science and engineering teams to deliver industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure.
- The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life.
- We work hand-in-hand with our partners across the company to advance the state of the art in science and AI engineering, and we build and deploy proprietary solutions that are central to our business and deliver value to millions of customers.
- Our AI models and platforms empower teams across Capital One to enhance their products with the transformative power of AI, in responsible and scalable ways for the highest leverage impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace.
- Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.
