Lead AI Engineer; MLX Emerging AI Patterns

Lead AI Engineer (MLX Emerging AI Patterns)

Lead AI Engineer at Capital One will be a part of the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, focusing on building responsible and scalable AI systems to transform banking.

• Partner with engineers, research scientists, PMs, and product managers to deliver AI‑powered products that improve associate and customer interactions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
• Leverage Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultra clusters, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and related tools.
• Invent and introduce state‑of‑the‑art LLM optimization techniques to enhance performance, scalability, cost, latency, and throughput of production AI systems.
• Contribute to the technical vision and long‑term roadmap for foundational AI systems at Capital One.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, OR Master’s degree with at least 2 years of experience.
• At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
• 6+ years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services.
• Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (LLM inference, similarity search, vector databases, guardrails, memory).
• 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 applying novel techniques in production.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well‑being, including performance‑based incentive compensation and long‑term incentives.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non‑discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.