Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise AI Job at Scale (San Francisco)

Senior Distinguished AI Engineer

At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing ba...

Location

United States , San Francisco; Richmond; San Jose; Cambridge; McLean; New York

Salary:

286200.00 - 392000.00 USD / Year

Capital One

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

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
9 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)
Experience architecting, designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex enterprise AI systems
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering organization and influence cross-functional stakeholders up to the SVP level
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost
Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers

Job Responsibility

Partner with a cross-functional team of 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, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability
Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more
Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems
Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One

What we offer

performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

Fulltime

Distinguished Engineer - AI-First Transformation

We are seeking a visionary Distinguished Engineer to drive our AI-First Transfor...

Location

United States , Santa Clara

Salary:

351750.00 USD / Year

Palo Alto Networks

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 15 years of related experience, or Master's degree with 12 years of experience, or PhD with 8 years of experience
Deep experience leading cross-functional teams at the intersection of Business Strategy and Technical Execution
Proven 'General Manager' mindset with a track record of owning the P&L or business outcome of a digital product
Fluency in the modern AI stack, understanding the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, RAG architectures, and Agentic workflows

Job Responsibility

Define the AI transformation roadmap, ruthlessly prioritizing initiatives like autonomous agents and predictive operations to ensure a clear path to ROI
Oversee the data strategy, curating 'Golden Examples' from institutional history to train models on our best work and digitize our 'Enterprise Memory'
Re-imagine and design 'Invisible AI' workflows that seamlessly assist human experts, rather than simply digitizing existing processes
Establish rigorous 'Report Cards' for AI models to move from 'vibes-based' decisions to structured evaluation, measuring accuracy, latency, and business relevance before production
Partner with Legal, InfoSec, and Engineering to implement strict governance and safety 'Circuit Breakers,' protecting company IP and preventing data leaks or unsafe AI actions
Own the adoption curve and unit economics, ensuring workforce trust in AI tools and preventing model decay by maintaining a fresh knowledge base

Fulltime

Distinguished Engineer - Agentic AI

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of...

Location

United States , McLean; Richmond

Salary:

269100.00 - 307200.00 USD / Year

Capital One

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor Degree
At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture
At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns
At least 3 years of experience with AWS

Job Responsibility

Rapidly prototype & assess new technologies that enable hyper personalized marketing and assistive field sales systems
Partner with (& influence) our enterprise and card tech organizations to help Capital One develop the best agentic marketing & sales systems on the planet
Establish and evangelize technical charters that will help the org more quickly adopt AI technologies
Bridge the gap between our current systems and the future, ensuring that existing systems remain healthy and continue to serve the business
Regularly clear roadblocks for developers across the org - with exceptional judgement for when to apply technical, process, or risk-acceptance solutions
Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability
Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community
Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
Provide architectural guidance and designs for large scale cross-domain programs
Working with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and hands-on code contribution/reviews where necessary

What we offer

Performance based incentive compensation
cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)
health, financial and other benefits

Fulltime

Distinguished Data Engineer - Enterprise Data Technology

Distinguished Data Engineers are individual contributors who strive to be divers...

Location

United States , McLean; San Francisco

Salary:

269100.00 - 335100.00 USD / Year

Capital One

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 7 years of experience in data engineering
At least 3 years of experience in data architecture
At least 2 years of experience building applications in AWS
At least 5 years of experience of Python, SQL or Scala
At least 3 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies

Job Responsibility

Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective data architectures that seamlessly integrate Databricks (for complex processing,ML) and Snowflake (for warehousing,ETL)
Drive performance engineering and optimization for large-scale data ingestion and processing workloads across the Databricks,Snowflake,AWS data pipeline
Provide technical leadership for the design, development, testing and deployment of agentic workflows across Capital One
Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities
Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others’ ideas can be heard and championed
leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible
Operate as a trusted advisor for a specific technology, platform or capability domain, helping to shape use cases and implementation in an unified manner

What we offer

comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)

Fulltime