AI Engineer 5 – Gen AI Platform Services, Agentic AI

Capital One

. Partner with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeMcLean • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $229,900 - $286,200 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and optimizing AI systems, including foundation model training and LLM inference, while ensuring compliance with ethical AI standards. Proven ability to lead technical teams and manage cost-performance governance for scalable AI solutions.

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AI System DevelopmentPython ProgrammingLLM InferenceCloud DeploymentEthical AI Standards

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Hard Skills

AI AlgorithmsMachine Learning TechnologiesFoundation Model OptimizationMulti-Model OrchestrationModel EvaluationSimilarity SearchAgentic AI SystemsDynamic Inference StrategiesModel CompressionGPU Utilization

Soft Skills

MentoringLeadershipCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AWS UltraclustersHugging FaceVectorDBsPyTorch

Industry Keywords

AI Engineering StandardsCost-Performance GovernanceHuman-in-the-Loop ReviewsExplainabilityFairness

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaPythonPyTorchScalaGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers 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, Hugging Face, VectorDBs, and PyTorch
Invent and introduce foundation model optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput
Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems
Design, implement, and optimize multi-model orchestration pipelines integrating LLMs, vector search, and domain-specific models
Establish and lead cost-performance governance reviews, tracking GPU utilization, model throughput, and inference cost efficiency
Lead team design councils or design review boards for technical consistency and AI engineering standards compliance
Mentor Principal- and Manager-level AI engineers and elevate organizational technical maturity

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 a related field plus at least 4 years of such experience
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java
Experience leading AI system development with cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy tradeoffs
7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms
Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems
Experience developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, including LLM inference, similarity search, VectorDBs, guardrails, and memory
Experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows
Experience architecting and integrating heterogeneous AI systems into unified production pipelines
Experience defining and enforcing ethical AI deployment standards, including explainability, fairness, and human-in-the-loop reviews
Ability to balance model performance and operational cost through dynamic inference strategies and model compression
Experience right-sizing models, instance counts, and hardware types
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being