AI Engineer

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

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $229,900 - $286,200 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudJavaOpen SourcePythonPyTorchScalaC++Go

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 of production AI systems
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

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 these fields plus at least 4 years of experience
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java
Experience leading development of AI systems with cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy tradeoff decisions
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 and ML algorithms or technologies using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang
Experience optimizing training and inference software for hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows
Experience architecting and integrating rule-based, retrieval-augmented, and generative AI components into unified production pipelines
Experience defining and enforcing ethical AI deployment standards, including explainability, fairness, and human-in-the-loop review
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

Comp & perks

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