AI Engineer 4 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic Systems)
$197k - $225k • San Francisco, CA • Full-time
Posted 3d ago
About the job
Capital One is building responsible and reliable AI systems to transform banking. Leveraging extensive experience in machine learning and investments in technology, the company aims to be at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption. This role is part of the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, which develops and deploys proprietary AI solutions that deliver value to millions of customers and empower internal teams. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products, contributing to the technical vision and roadmap of foundational AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents and multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
- Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, and PyTorch.
- Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model 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.
- Own the end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems, ensuring maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment.
- Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for AI reliability.
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate model inference pipelines.
- Lead cross-functional technical reviews for new AI system deployments.
- Mentor Associates on scalable design, performance tuning, and research-to-production translation.
Requirements
- Bachelor'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, OR a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
- At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
- Experience leading development of AI systems with tradeoff decisions around cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy.
- 6+ 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, delivering, and supporting AI services.
- Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang.
- Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software.
- Experience in building agentic AI systems and agentic workflows.
- Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.
- Proficiency in designing distributed systems for model training, evaluation, and online inference at petabyte scale.
- Experience defining AI model governance processes.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple AI product lines.