Senior Lead AI Engineer (MLXT)

Senior Lead AI Engineer (MLXT) Overview: 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.

Description: The Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI at Capital One to life. We work hand-in-hand with our partners across the company to advance the state of the art in science and AI engineering, and we build and deploy proprietary solutions that are central to our business and deliver value to millions of customers.  Our AI models and platforms empower teams across Capital One to enhance their products with the transformative power of AI, in responsible and scalable ways for the highest leverage impact. As a Senior Lead AI Engineer, you will drive critical technical initiatives that shape the future of enterprise AIML infrastructure targeted to transform the business analysis experience in a highly regulated environment. You will play a pivotal role in modernizing our core Analyst & AIML workflow orchestration layer and user interface, integrating frontier generative AI capabilities and self-serve tooling to enable no-code/low-code, well-governed model development for business domain experts. In this role, you will:   Modernize Workflows: Advance the orchestration layer and UI with generative AI capabilities and self-serve tooling to democratize AI development through governed, low-code/no-code tools for business domain experts. Build Agentic-Driven Infrastructure: Modernize our platform services with agentic infrastructure that is reliable, scalable, secure, and seamlessly adheres to enterprise guardrails. Drive AutoML Innovation: Scale enterprise-grade managed AutoML offerings for tabular and time-series data to radically reduce solution time-to-market from weeks to days. Engineer AI-Driven Controls: Evolve the core component marketplace by engineering cutting-edge, automated governance frameworks The Ideal Candidate: You love to build systems, take pride in the quality of your work, and also share our passion to do the right thing. You want to work on problems that will help change banking for good.  Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production. You adapt quickly and thrive on bringing clarity to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and digging deep to uncover the root of problems and can articulate your findings concisely with clarity. You have the courage to share new ideas even when they are unproven. You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enable you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss.  You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 years of