Capital One
AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI)
$230K–$286K
San Jose, CA +4 · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Francisco, CA
McLean, VA
Cambridge, MA
New York, NY - Experience
- At least 6 years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies with a Bachelor’s degree, or at least 4 years with a Master’s degree; at least 6 years programming. Preferred: 7+ years deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Build and lead scalable, responsible AI platform systems, including agentic workflows, foundation-model optimization, and multi-model orchestration for banking products.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and support AI components such as LLM inference, agents, vector search, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
- Optimize production AI systems for scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization; lead cost-performance governance and technical reviews.
- Contribute to AI platform roadmaps, establish engineering standards, and mentor senior AI engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a listed or related field plus at least 6 years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master’s degree in a listed or related field plus at least 4 years in that area.
- At least 6 years programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Nice to have
- Experience leading AI system development and making cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy tradeoffs.
- Experience building agentic AI systems and workflows; deploying scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms.
Pay
$229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary (Cambridge, MA); $229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $250,800 - $286,200 USD base salary (New York, NY); $250,800 - $286,200 USD base salary (San Francisco, CA); $250,800 - $286,200 USD base salary (San Jose, CA)
Tools
AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, Python, Go, Scala, CUDA
AI focus
Develop agentic and multi-agent AI workflows, foundation-model and inference optimization, and responsible, scalable AI platforms.
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