Senior Lead AI Engineer (MLXT)

Capital One•McLean, VA

13d

About The Position

At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, 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 — along with our deep experience in machine learning — position us to be at the forefront of enterprises leveraging AI. From informing customers about unusual charges to answering their questions in real time, 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 our industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure. At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses who have come to love the products and services we build. 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. As a Senior Lead AI Engineer, you will drive critical technical initiatives that shape the future of enterprise AIML infrastructure targeted to transform the business analysis experience in a highly regulated environment. You will play a pivotal role in modernizing our core Analyst & AIML workflow orchestration layer and user interface, integrating frontier generative AI capabilities and self-serve tooling to enable no-code/low-code, well-governed model development for business domain experts.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Nice To Haves

7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)
Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
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

Responsibilities

Advance the orchestration layer and UI with generative AI capabilities and self-serve tooling to democratize AI development through governed, low-code/no-code tools for business domain experts.
Modernize our platform services with agentic infrastructure that is reliable, scalable, secure, and seamlessly adheres to enterprise guardrails.
Scale enterprise-grade managed AutoML offerings for tabular and time-series data to radically reduce solution time-to-market from weeks to days.
Evolve the core component marketplace by engineering cutting-edge, automated governance frameworks