Capital One
AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services - Agentic Systems)
$230K–$286K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Cambridge, MA
San Jose, CA
New York, NY - 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.
- 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 optimize foundational AI platforms and agentic systems, from model orchestration and inference to deployment, governance, and observability.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, deploy, and support AI components including foundation model training, LLM inference, agents, multi-agent workflows, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
- Optimize large-scale AI systems for scalability, cost, latency, throughput, and hardware utilization; lead cost-performance governance reviews.
- Shape technical roadmaps and design standards, and mentor AI engineers.
What they ask for
- 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 those fields plus at least 4 years of that experience.
- At least 6 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java.
Nice to have
- Experience leading development of AI systems and making cost, latency, throughput, and accuracy tradeoffs.
- Experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms, building agentic systems, or optimizing AI training and inference.
Pay
$229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary (Cambridge, MA); $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
Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, Java, AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, PyTorch
AI focus
Develop foundational AI platforms and agentic systems, including model training and inference, multi-model orchestration, optimization, responsible deployment, governance, evaluation, and observability.
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