Senior Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI)

Discover Financial
New York, Cambridge, San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,800 - 286,200 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Mentorship"]

Build and evolve responsible, reliable AI systems for banking by designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting core LLM and foundation-model components. Work with an Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to deliver AI-powered products, including training, inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS-based infrastructure and open source AI tools, and invent optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production AI systems.

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Senior Lead AI Engineer (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI)

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Job Summary

Build and evolve responsible, reliable AI systems for banking by designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting core LLM and foundation-model components. Work with an Intelligent Foundations and Experiences team to deliver AI-powered products, including training, inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability. Leverage AWS-based infrastructure and open source AI tools, and invent optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput for production AI systems.
Location: New York, Cambridge, San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner cross-functionally to deliver AI-powered products that improve how associates work and how customers interact with Capital One.
  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability.
  • •Leverage open source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, and PyTorch.
  • •Invent state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve scalability, cost, latency, and throughput in production AI systems.
  • •Contribute to the technical vision and long-term roadmap of foundational AI systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,800 - 286,200 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus 6+ years developing AI/ML algorithms or technologies, or a Master's plus 4+ years.
  • •At least 6 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • •Experience deploying scalable, responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) for 7+ years.
  • •Experience developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems.
  • •Ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience:6+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingMentorship
Tech Stack:PythonGoScalaJavaC++C#GolangAWSGoogle CloudAzureHuggingfaceVectorDBsNemo GuardrailsPyTorch

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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