Capital One
banking
SeniorDistinguishedEngineer,AICompute
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“Senior Distinguished Engineer, AI Compute at Capital One. Skills: AI Compute, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning Platform Engineering, Large-Scale Systems, High-Performance Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, LLM Training and Inference. Architect and build control and data plane implementations required to realize a highly available, multi-tenant, large scale and a secure machine learning platform. Develop Ray and Spark distributed compute engine solutions to accelerate diverse workloads from LL”
What You'll Achieve.
optimize business outcomes while driving towards technology solutions
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies, At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java
Nice to Have
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, Hands on experience in the internals of Ray (Actors/GCS/Scheduling) or Spark (Query Optimizer/Memory Management), Experience building platforms that support LLM training, fine-tuning, or high-throughput inference, Hands-on experience with AWS-specific compute primitives (EKS, EC2 UltraClusters, Graviton) and cost-optimization strategies, History of upstream contributions to major distributed systems projects
What You'll Do.
Architect and build control and data plane implementations required to realize a highly available
large scale and a secure machine learning platform
Develop Ray and Spark distributed compute engine solutions to accelerate diverse workloads from LLM pre-training and reinforcement learning to large-scale data processing
while maximizing compute unit economics
Engineer systemic improvements for operational excellence including automating KTLO (Keep The Lights On) workflows
Direct the technical execution of a diverse project portfolio
collaborating with developers specializing in everything ranging from distributed microservices to running large foundation models
Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends
experimenting with and learning new technologies
participating in internal & external technology communities
and leading system design and code review sessions
Help elevate the Capital One Distinguished Engineering community and establish yourself as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities
Lead the way in creating next-generation talent
mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster the Capital One tech talent pool
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborating with developers specializing in everything ranging from distributed microservices to running large foundation models; Work cross-functionally with product and program management disciplines, and stakeholder and partners across Capital One
Full Job Description
Senior Distinguished Engineer, AI Compute (Remote Eligible) At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, Capital One has been an industry leader in using machine learning to create real-time, personalized customer experiences. Our investments in technology infrastructure and world-class talent — along with our deep experience in machine learning — position us to be at the forefront of enterprises leveraging AI. From informing customers about unusual charges to answering their questions in real time, our applications of AI & ML are bringing humanity and simplicity to banking. We are committed to continuing to build world-class applied science and engineering teams to deliver our industry leading capabilities with breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure. At Capital One, you will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses who have come to love the products and services we build. **Team Description:** The Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise AI+ML system delivering the high-scale developer and runtime environments required to build, orchestrate, and deploy compute and data intensive AI systems across real-time and batch workloads. We are seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer, a hands-on technical leader passionate about distributed systems, to engineer and scale foundational compute capabilities for our platform. You will use your experience in building large scale, highly available and high performance systems to develop our common compute infrastructure on top of CPU and GPU substrates. Your contributions will power everything from developer notebooks to ML / DL model training, model inference and feature generation pipelines to pre-training and fine tuning Transformer-based models as well as generative AI inference and agentic applications.
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