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Posted on 2026/08/21

Sr. Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations)

Capital One

San Jose, CA, United States

Full-time

Qualifications

You love to build systems, take pride in the quality of your work, and also share our passion to do the right thing

You want to work on problems that will help change banking for good

You love asking questions and digging deep to uncover the root of problems and can articulate your findings concisely with clarity

Benefits

Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked

New York, NY: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter

Responsibilities

Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One

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, etc

Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more

Job Description

Sr.

Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations)

Overview

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