Senior Manager- AI Engineer

About the role

Voyager (94001), India, Bangalore, Karnātaka Senior Manager- AI Engineer At Capital One India, 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. Team 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. What You’ll Do: Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc. Make high judgment build-vs-buy decisions across a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, PyTorch, and more Invent and introduce state-of-the-art foundation model 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 Attract and retain top talent in the AI industry and nurture personal and professional development for your team. Foster a culture of learning and staying abreast of the state-of-the-art in AI Translate enterprise AI goals into actionable team roadmaps with measurable outcomes and regular readouts Operationalize Responsible AI: establish review gates, documentation/evaluation requirements, and rollout/rollback standards for all production AI systems Create strong collaboration interfaces with Research, Data, and Platform teams to accelerate model lifecycle 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 get fulfillment from empowering others to achieve their potential and you actively drive professional development through mentoring and coaching. You are hands-on when necessary and lead by example 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 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 At least 6 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies At least 1 year of people leadership experience Preferred Qualifications: 3+ years of experience managing and leading an engineering team 6+ years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud) 6+ years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, CUDA, or Golang 3+ years of experience in building agentic AI systems and agentic workflows 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 3+ years of experience leading technical strategy for a multi-disciplinary AI team, balancing research exploration with production delivery Familiarity with MLOps, AI observability (evaluation pipelines, drift monitoring, model/version governance) to ensure reliability and compliance Track record mentoring engineers/scientists to productize prototypes and meet production SLOs 3+ years of experience right-sizing models, instance counts, and hardware types given requirements (e.g., context length, token inputs, token outputs) 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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(COPSSC). 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.

Posted Oct 7, 2026