Capital One
AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic Systems)
$230K–$286K
New York, NY +4 · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
San Francisco, CA
McLean, VA
Cambridge, MA
San Jose, CA - Experience
- At least 6 years developing AI and 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 scalable 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
- Will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization.
About the job
Build and optimize scalable AI platform services, including foundation models, inference, agentic workflows, and multi-model orchestration for banking products.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, deploy, and support AI components and multi-model orchestration pipelines.
- Optimize production AI systems for scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization.
- Lead design and governance reviews, contribute to technical roadmaps, and mentor AI engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field plus at least 6 years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, or a master’s degree in a related field plus at least 4 years.
- 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.
Pay
$229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary (Cambridge, MA; McLean, VA); $250,800 - $286,200 USD base salary (New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA)
Tools
AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, Python, Go, Scala, CUDA
AI focus
Develop foundation model and LLM inference systems, agents and multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance, and observability; optimize training and inference for production.
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