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AI Engineer 4 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation)

Capital One

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Location
New York, NY
Track
AI Platform / SRE
Level
Senior
Salary
$230K–$262K / yr
Posted
October 6, 2026
Source
Workday

Job description

AI Engineer 4 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation)

What You’ll Do

  • Own the end-to-end architecture for complex AI systems - ensuring maintainability, observability, and ethical alignment
  • Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for AI reliability, including latency, uptime, and model performance drift
  • Collaborate with infrastructure engineering to optimize GPU/TPU utilization and accelerate model inference pipelines
  • Lead cross-functional technical reviews for new AI system deployments, ensuring security, data governance, and compliance standards are met
  • Mentor Principal and Senior Associates on scalable design, performance tuning and research-to-production translation

The Ideal Candidate

  • You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enables you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss
  • You are a resilient trailblazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown

Basic

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 4 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 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
  • At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, CUDA, or Java

Preferred

Qualifications

  • Experience leading development AI systems with tradeoff decisions around cost, latency, throughput and accuracy
  • 6+ years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)
  • Experience designing, developing, delivering, and supporting AI services
  • Proficiency in designing distributed systems for model training, evaluation, and online inference at petabyte scale
  • Experience defining AI model governance processes, including producibility, lineage tracking, and automated retaining schedules
  • Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple AI product lines or platforms

Cambridge, MA: $197,300 - $225,100 for AI Engineer 4

McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for AI Engineer 4

New York, NY: $215,200 - $245,600 for AI Engineer 4

San Francisco, CA: $215,200 - $245,600 for AI Engineer 4

San Jose, CA: $215,200 - $245,600 for AI Engineer 4

Skills

  • AI Agent
  • RAG
  • Machine Learning

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