Sr. Distinguished AI Engineer (Agentic AI Platform)

Capital One seeks a Sr. Distinguished AI Engineer to help create responsible and reliable AI systems on the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team. The role focuses on delivering industry-leading AI capabilities through breakthrough product experiences and scalable, high-performance infrastructure.

What you'll do:

• Partner with cross-functional teams of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products
• Contribute to platform architecture, publishing canonical APIs for agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, prompt libraries, and multi-tenant policy enforcement
• Standardize and automate agentic workflows by evaluating frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, LlamaIndex) and hardening patterns for enterprise SLAs so 90% of new apps adopt them
• Craft an end-to-end GenAI SDK, CLI, and starter kits to let AI engineers spin up secure, observable agentic workflows in minutes
• Establish central guardrail services: prompt firewalls, content filters, red-team harnesses, audit APIs
• Optimize orchestration for cost reduction and performance
• Own Kubernetes infrastructure (Helm, operators, CRDs) for agent auto-scaling
• Mentor engineers and represent Capital One at AI conferences

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/AI + 10+ years developing AI/ML algorithms, or Master's + 8+ years
• 10+ years programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Preferred:

• 9 years deploying scalable AI on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 2+ years with agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen)
• 2+ years with LLMOps (Vertex AI, SageMaker, Azure ML)
• 8+ years designing mission-critical ML platforms
• Kubernetes mastery (multi-region, service mesh)
• Experience with LLM inference, vector databases, guardrails, memory systems
• Master's degree preferred