Senior Staff Engineer, AI Compute (Remote Eligible)
AI summary of the role
Capital One seeks a Senior Distinguished Engineer to architect and scale the foundational compute infrastructure for its enterprise AI+ML platform.
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What you’ll do
- Architect and build control and data plane implementations for a highly available, multi-tenant, large scale and secure machine learning platform
- Develop Ray and Spark distributed compute engine solutions to accelerate diverse workloads from LLM pre-training and reinforcement learning to large-scale data processing, while maximizing compute unit economics
- Engineer systemic improvements for operational excellence including automating KTLO (Keep The Lights On) workflows
- Direct the technical execution of a diverse project portfolio, collaborating with developers specializing in distributed microservices to running large foundation models
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 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 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies
- At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java
Technologies
Golang · Python · Spark · Dask · Ray · Flink · Kubernetes · AWS Lambda · EKS · EC2 UltraClusters · Graviton
About Capital One
US consumer bank and largest credit card issuer; cloud-native operator running credit cards, auto loans, retail banking, and now the Discover network on AWS.
Public · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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 Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise AI+ML system delivering the high-scale developer and runtime environments required to build, orchestrate, and deploy compute and data intensive AI systems across real-time and batch workloads. We are seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer, a hands-on technical leader passionate about distributed systems, to engineer and scale foundational compute capabilities for our platform. You will use your experience in building large scale, highly available and high performance systems to develop our common compute infrastructure on top of CPU and GPU substrates. Your contributions will power everything from developer
More from the job description
Senior Distinguished Engineer, AI Compute (Remote Eligible) 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. Team Description: The Capital One machine learning platform organization manages our cloud-based enterprise AI+ML system delivering the high-scale developer and runtime environments required to build, orchestrate, and deploy compute and data intensive AI systems across real-time and batch workloads. We are seeking a Senior Dis [... source excerpt omitted ...] erverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) runtime environments, and ML+AI workload patterns will provide an amplifying technical element that is paramount to our team's success. In this role, you will : Architect and build control and data plane implementations required to realize a highly available, multi-tenant, large scale and a secure machine learning platform Develop Ray and Spark distributed compute engine solutions to accelerate diverse workloads from LLM pre-training and reinforcement learning to large-scale data processing, while maximizing compute unit economics Engineer systemic improvements for operational excellence including automating KTLO (Keep The Lights On) workflows Di [... source excerpt omitted ...] ng internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster the Capital One tech talent pool Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 10 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 8 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies At least 10 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java Preferred Qualifications : Mast
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