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Lead AI Engineer

Location Bengaluru, Karnataka
Job ID R225290 Updated date 09/15/2025
Voyager (94001), India, Bangalore, Karnataka

Lead AI Engineer

At Capital One India, we work in a fast paced and intellectually rigorous environment to solve fundamental business problems at scale. Using advanced analytics, data science and machine learning, we derive valuable insights about product and process design, consumer behavior, regulatory and credit risk, and more from large volumes of data, and use it to build cutting edge patentable products that drive the business forward.

We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join the Machine Learning Experience (MLX) team!

As a Capital One Lead AI Engineer, you will be part of a team focusing on observability and model governance automation for cutting edge generative AI use cases. You will work on building solutions to collect metadata, metrics and insights from the large scale Gen-AI platform and build intelligent and smart solutions to derive deep insights into platform's use-cases performance and compliance with industry standards.

You will contribute to building a system to do this for Capital One models, accelerating the move from fully trained models to deployable model artifacts ready to be used to fuel business decisioning and build an observability platform to monitor the models and platform components.

The MLX team is at the forefront of how Capital One builds and deploys well-managed ML models and features. We onboard and educate associates on the ML platforms and products that the whole company uses. We drive new innovation and research and we are working to seamlessly infuse ML into the fabric of the company. The ML experience we are creating today is the foundation that enables each of our businesses to deliver next-generation ML-driven products and services for our customers.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead the design and implementation of observability tools and dashboards that provide actionable insights into platform performance and health

  • Leverage Generative AI models and fine tune them to enhance observability capabilities, such as anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and troubleshooting copilot

  • Build and deploy well-managed core APIs and SDKs for observability of LLMs and proprietary Gen-AI Foundation Models including training, pre-training, fine-tuning and prompting.

  • Stay abreast of the latest trends in Generative AI, platform observability, responsible AI, and drive the adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies

  • Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that enables state of the art, next generation gen-ai applications

  • Bring research mindset, lead Proof of concept to showcase capabilities of large language models in the realm of observability and governance which enables practical production solutions for improving platform users productivity.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering

  • At least 7 years of experience in machine learning engineering, building data intensive solutions using distributed computing

  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Generative AI models and their application in observability or related areas

  • At least 8 years of experience programming with Python, Go, or Java

  • At least 5 years of experience with an industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow

  • At least 5 years of experience productionizing, monitoring, and maintaining models

  • At least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP

  • At least 7 years of experience in developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's or doctoral degree in data science/computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics

  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning, particularly in deploying and operationalizing ML models

  • 8+ years of experience building and evaluating agentic solutions

  • Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker

  • Knowledge of data governance and compliance, particularly in the context of machine learning and AI systems

  • Prior experience in NVIDIA GPU Telemetry and experience in CUDA

  • Contributed to open source ML software

  • Authored/co-authored papers, patent on ML techniques, model, or proof of concept

  • 2+ experience in developing applications using Generative AI i.e open source or commercial LLMs

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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Who We Are

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.