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cyber full stack technical software engineer

Deloitte

<div>Deloitte Cyber understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Deloitte's Cyber team helps our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. We simplify complexity, and enable businesses to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage their security posture. 
 
Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026. 
 
The Team:
 
 
Deloitte's Cyber Engineering is a new team that is spearheading the buildout of Cybersecurity technology that will underpin the next generation of our Cybersecurity services. Join us as we work with technologies shaping the future of Cybersecurity to build future capabilities today. 
 
Position Summary
 
 
You will be responsible for individually delivering high quality products within due timelines. Need-basis you will be mentoring and/or directing junior team members/liaising with onsite/offshore teams to understand the functional requirements. 
 
Work you will do:
 
<ul><li>Working closely with business, solution engineers, team members and leadership to understand business requirements and deliver high quality technical solutions
</li><li>Analyzing, implementing user requirements/business needs as new and/or enhanced product functionality
</li><li>Identifying key drivers of a problem and proposes technical solutions using analysis, experience, and decision making
</li><li>Developing solutions to client problems through application of methods and tools; validating solutions to SMEs
</li><li>Understanding the benefits of using state of the art methods and tools and their application on a particular engagement contributes to continuous development of methods and tools
</li><li>Demonstrating accountability and contributions to the successful realization of client goals
</li></ul> 
Required Qualifications
 
 
We require 3-5 years of experience for all skill areas below:
 
<ul><li>Hands-on experience in full stack software development across frontend and backend technologies.
</li><li>Experience designing, developing, deploying, implementing, or supporting AI, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions and architectures in enterprise applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
</li><li>Experience with object-oriented programming using languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
</li><li>Experience with frontend development using Angular, React, or Next.js, and with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3 in production environments.
</li><li>Experience with at least one backend technology stack: Node.js, Python (Django or Flask), or Java (Spring Boot).
</li><li>Experience building and consuming REST APIs and microservices.
</li><li>Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle, and with at least one NoSQL database such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
</li><li>Experience using Git and development lifecycle tools such as Azure DevOps.
</li><li>Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent, and with automated testing and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
</li><li>Experience deploying applications, APIs, or analytics workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
</li><li>Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
</li><li>Cloud certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP
</li><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or a related field.
</li><li>Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
</li></ul> 
Preferred Qualifications
 
<ul><li>Experience with Docker, container-based application development, and serverless architectures.
</li><li>Experience with secure development practices or cybersecurity-focused application development.
</li></ul><ul><li>Hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI/LLM-powered solutions in client or production environments.
</li><li>Experience with one of the following Frontier GenAI Platforms: Anthropic, Google or Open AI, including hands on experience with one of the following key platforms/products; Claude API, Claude for Enterprise, tool use, extended thinking, Claude Code, Gemini API, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Grounding, Google Workspace integration, GPT-4o, Assistants API, Responses API, OpenAI Agents SDK.
</li></ul><ul><li>Experience contributing to project planning, estimation, or risk tracking.
</li><li>Experience mentoring junior or mid-level developers, leading code reviews, and providing development feedback.
</li><li>Experience partnering with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills in cross-functional team environments.
</li><li>Cloud certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
</li><li>Familiarity with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
</li><li>Exposure to graph databases such as Neo4j or Memgraph.
</li><li>Familiarity with build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
</li><li>Experience with Bootstrap, jQuery, or JSP in legacy or mixed-technology environments.
</li><li>Familiarity with DevOps or DevSecOps practices.
</li><li>Knowledge of web security, GitOps, and Kubernetes customization.
</li>Basic understanding of AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch. 
<li>
</li></ul> 
 
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $122,000 to $240,500. 
 
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. 
 
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Cyber Full-Stack Technical Software Engineer

David Joseph & Company

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Founding Engineer &mdash; Confidential (AI Startup, YC/a16z-Backed)</h2>
Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week) 
Compensation: $180,000 &ndash; $225,000 base + 1.0% &ndash; 1.5% equity 
Visa Sponsorship: Available &mdash; visa transfers supported | Relocation support available 
Employment Type: Full-Time<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Company</h3>
A well-funded AI startup building a new paradigm for software creation &mdash; using AI agents to autonomously create and operate specialized software products at scale. Founded in 2026, the company has raised $5.5M from a16z and other top-tier investors and is building out its founding engineering team of 5&ndash;7 engineers. The founding team has previously scaled companies to $20M ARR.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
The Role</h3>
This is a founding engineering role for a generalist full-stack engineer who loves building from zero. You will ship micro apps weekly to real users, encode your processes into increasingly automated workflows, and run rapid experiments with the founding team. All engineers report directly to the founder and CEO.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You'll Own</h3><ul><li>
Build and ship micro apps every week with real users, encoding your processes into increasingly automated workflows</li><li>
Work in close collaboration with the founding team</li><li>
Run rapid experiments and decisively double down on what works while cutting what doesn't</li></ul>
Tech stack: Full-stack, AI &mdash; Python, JavaScript, Kotlin, Go (flexible on language)<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Requirements</h3><ul><li>
1&ndash;5 years of software engineering experience building AI-driven products</li><li>
Experience shipping products or features from ideation to real users with significant traction</li><li>
Proficiency in agentic development &mdash; designing and building orchestration pipelines across multiple agents, tools, and services</li><li>
Full-stack proficiency with a backend focus</li><li>
Active user of modern AI tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)</li><li>
At least one clear signal of excellence &mdash; hackathon wins, side projects with significant traction, impressive fellowships, YC founder background, etc.</li><li>
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field</li><li>
Must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Preferred</h3><ul><li>
Previous founder or early-stage startup experience &mdash; YC or a16z alum backgrounds a strong plus</li><li>
Degree from a top-tier university (Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, or equivalent)</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
This Role Is NOT For</h3><ul><li>
Pretraining or fine-tuning ML researchers &mdash; this is applied agentic engineering, not model training</li><li>
Pure Big Tech careers with no side project, startup, or scrappy chapter</li><li>
Candidates with a pattern of short tenures across multiple companies</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Interview Process</h3><ul><li>
Application review</li><li>
Intro screen (45 min) &mdash; technical depth, past projects, judgment, and founder fit</li><li>
Pair coding session (60 min) &mdash; live coding, no AI tools; CS fundamentals and algorithmic reasoning</li><li>
Onsite (~4 hours) &mdash; agentic coding session, system design, and behavioral/founder-fit conversation</li><li>
Offer</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Logistics</h3><ul><li>
Role is fully onsite in San Francisco (SoMa) &mdash; 5 days/week</li><li>
Relocation support available</li><li>
Visa sponsorship available</li></ul>
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph &amp; Co., the recruiting partner managing this search.</div>

Founding Engineer — Confidential

Ontrac Solutions

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">Overview</h1>
We are seeking a Principal GenAI Architect / Forward Deployed Principal Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and productionization of enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions within a highly regulated banking environment. This role will partner directly with business, product, engineering, architecture, risk, cyber, legal, compliance, and model governance teams to translate high-impact financial services use cases into scalable, secure, and compliant AI systems.
The ideal candidate has deep experience designing and delivering production-scale GenAI solutions across enterprise environments, with strong exposure to banking, financial services, risk management, customer operations, regulatory controls, and data protection requirements. This person will serve as a recognized GenAI expert across the organization, helping define reusable patterns, influence platform roadmaps, and raise the technical bar for responsible AI adoption across lines of business.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Key Responsibilities</h2>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">GenAI Architecture &amp; Production Readiness</h3>
Own and define enterprise-grade GenAI architectures for banking and financial services use cases, including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, prompt orchestration, and multi-model routing strategies.
Drive production readiness for GenAI solutions, ensuring scalability, resiliency, observability, latency optimization, security, and cost efficiency.
Lead complex architectural decisions across data ingestion, vector databases, model selection, guardrails, API scalability, performance optimization, and secure integration with banking systems.
Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and best practices to accelerate responsible GenAI adoption across lines of business.
Partner with central AI platform teams to align solution architecture with enterprise AI services, platform capabilities, banking technology standards, and long-term roadmap priorities.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Banking Use-Case Delivery</h3>
Act as a Forward Deployed Principal Engineer, partnering directly with business, product, and engineering teams to deliver high-impact GenAI use cases from ideation through production.
Translate banking and financial services business problems into clear AI system designs, technical requirements, and non-functional requirements with measurable outcomes.
Support GenAI use cases across areas such as customer service, operations, knowledge management, risk, compliance, fraud, employee productivity, document intelligence, and internal workflow automation.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across non-production and production environments.
Partner closely with application teams to ensure AI solutions integrate effectively into existing banking platforms, enterprise workflows, data environments, APIs, and control frameworks.
Influence platform roadmap by feeding real-world banking use-case requirements back into central AI services and enterprise AI platform teams.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance</h3>
Ensure all AI solutions align with banking risk, cyber, model governance, data protection, privacy, and regulatory expectations.
Partner with Cyber, Model Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Data Governance teams to design compliant AI patterns without slowing delivery.
Embed security, privacy, responsible AI, ethical AI, explainability, human oversight, and auditability into solution design by default.
Help define practical implementation patterns that balance innovation, speed, governance, regulatory expectations, and enterprise control requirements.
Ensure GenAI solutions are designed with appropriate guardrails for sensitive financial data, customer information, personally identifiable information, and regulated business processes.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Organizational Influence &amp; Mentorship</h3>
Serve as a recognized GenAI expert across the enterprise, regularly consulted by engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance, and leadership teams.
Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and help raise the technical bar across banking technology teams.
Contribute to internal communities of practice, architecture reviews, executive-level technical discussions, AI governance forums, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Represent enterprise GenAI capabilities in internal innovation forums, banking technology discussions, and responsible AI showcases.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Required Qualifications</h2>
7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in AI/ML, data-intensive systems, distributed systems, or enterprise-scale platforms.
2+ years of hands-on Python programming experience.
2+ years of experience designing and delivering production-scale Generative AI systems in an enterprise environment.
2+ years of experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architecture.
2+ years of experience with vector databases, semantic search, and retrieval systems.
2+ years of experience with API-driven, cloud-native architectures.
2+ years of experience with distributed systems, performance optimization, scalability, and reliability engineering.
Experience working within banking, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Preferred Qualifications</h2>
Strong understanding of banking technology environments and non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, resiliency, observability, latency, auditability, and cost management.
Demonstrated Principal-level impact, with influence across multiple teams, platforms, business units, or lines of business.
Experience operating in highly regulated environments, with financial services or banking experience strongly preferred.
Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, AI workflow orchestration, and multi-model routing.
Prior experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, embedded engineering, or business-facing technical delivery model.
Experience partnering with risk, cyber, legal, compliance, data governance, or model governance teams to deliver production AI solutions.
Familiarity with banking controls, customer data protection, model risk management, audit requirements, regulatory expectations, and responsible AI principles.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior executives, technical stakeholders, risk partners, compliance teams, and non-technical business leaders.
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Ideal Candidate Profile</h2>
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Principal-level engineer and architect who can move seamlessly between strategy, architecture, and execution in a banking environment. They are comfortable working directly with business teams to understand real-world financial services problems, while also going deep with engineering teams on system design, performance, security, governance, and production readiness.
This person brings strong technical judgment, enterprise banking delivery experience, and the ability to build practical, compliant GenAI solutions that can scale responsibly across a large financial institution.</div>

Principal AI Engineer

Resourceful Talent Group

<div>Compensation: $185,000 to $260,000 base + meaningful early-stage equity
About the Role
We are hiring a Founding Product Engineer for our client, a well-funded, fast-growing AI startup that is transforming how professional services firms operate through intelligent automation.
With strong customer traction, paying clients already using the product, and an ambitious roadmap ahead, they&rsquo;re looking for an exceptional engineer who wants to help build a category-defining product from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to work directly with the founding team, take ownership of core product development, and play a key role in shaping both the product and the engineering culture.
What You&rsquo;ll Do<ul><li>
Build and ship product features across the full stack, from concept to production</li><li>
Design scalable frontend and backend solutions using modern web technologies</li><li>
Develop integrations with third-party platforms and APIs</li><li>
Build AI-powered features using LLMs and agent-based workflows</li><li>
Collaborate closely with the founders on product strategy, technical decisions, and roadmap planning</li><li>
Move quickly, solve complex problems, and continuously improve the product based on customer feedback</li></ul><ul><li>
2 to 7 years of professional software engineering experience</li><li>
Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, and SQL or PostgreSQL</li><li>
Experience building and shipping production-ready full-stack applications</li><li>
Hands-on experience working with LLMs, AI tools, or agentic systems</li><li>
Ability to take ownership and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment</li><li>
Strong product mindset and passion for building user-focused software</li><li>
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills</li></ul>
Nice to Have<ul><li>
Experience working at a seed or Series A startup</li><li>
Experience building API integrations or workflow automation tools</li><li>
Exposure to AI-first products or automation platforms</li><li>
Previous experience as an early engineering hire or working directly with founders</li></ul>
Why Join?<ul><li>
Competitive base salary of $185K to $260K</li><li>
Meaningful early-stage equity</li><li>
Opportunity to become one of the first engineering hires</li><li>
Work directly with experienced founders who have successfully built and scaled startups</li><li>
Join a company with proven market demand and paying customers</li><li>
Hybrid schedule in San Francisco (3 days in office)</li><li>
Relocation assistance available</li><li>
Visa transfer support for qualified candidates</li><li>
High-impact role with significant ownership and opportunities for growth</li></ul></div>

Founding Product Engineer

Google

<div>Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. 
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Minimum qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 
</li>
<li>8 years of experience in software development. 
</li>
<li>5 years of experience testing, and launching software products. 
</li>
<li>5 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.</li>
<li>Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.</li>
<li>Experience in software engineering, generative AI agent, and cross-functional collaboration.</li></ul> 
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Master&rsquo;s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. 
</li>
<li>8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.</li>
<li>3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. 
</li>
<li>3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.</li>
<li>Experience with data engineering/large data set transformation and curation.</li>
<li>Experience with C++.</li>
</ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">About the job</h2>
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google&rsquo;s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Cloud Optimize team provides cost and performance optimization to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers. To do this we rely on a unique set of data and pipelines from other Cloud Products across GCP. You will help lead the efforts to envision these datasets, join with existing datasets, and provide the data to all first-party and third-party agents who need them. 
Optimization spans cost, performance, and capacity for projects and applications developed on GCP. Our outlook is to help developers autonomously optimize their applications for cost, performance, and capacity. We do this by developing agent skills and tooling for use with Gemini models.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization&rsquo;s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google&rsquo;s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
 
 
US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits 
 
Learn more about benefits at Google.</div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h2><ul>
<li>Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. 
</li>
<li>Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. 
</li>
<li>Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large-scale software solutions. 
</li>
<li>Work with partners across GCP. Develop and launch data pipelines that feed our GCP-native AI Agents. 
</li>
<li>Develop and launch APIs and MCP servers to make our data available to first-party and third-party agents.</li>
</ul></div>Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.</div>

Staff Software Engineer, Agent-Centric Data and APIs

Sift

<div>
 
 About Sift
 
 
 
 Sift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. Sift turns high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical systems. Teams use Sift to build and operate rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, defense platforms, and more.
 
 
 Founded by former SpaceX engineers who built the tools behind Dragon and Starlink, Sift is building the data infrastructure to herald the AI era for physical systems.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You'll
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Build and maintain full stack features across our web application and data processing backend for complex telemetry data
 </li>
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 Create intuitive user interfaces for data exploration while optimizing for large real-time datasets
 </li>
 <li>
 Implement efficient APIs and data access patterns for real-time data streaming
 </li>
 <li>
 Collaborate with data platform and frontend teams on service design and implementation
 </li>
 <li>
 Write clean, maintainable code and participate in technical design discussions
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 The Skillset You'll Bring
 
 
 
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 <li>
 3+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
 </li>
 <li>
 Experience building production applications with technologies like React, NextJS, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Python
 </li>
 <li>
 Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, e.g. PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, Timescale, or similar
 </li>
 <li>
 Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Bonus Points
 
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Experience with technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts) and time-series data
 </li>
 <li>
 Knowledge of WebAssembly and browser-based computation
 </li>
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 Background in scientific computing or technical data visualization
 </li>
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 Experience building tools for technical users (dashboards, data-editing environments)
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 Built and launched side projects with consistent usage traffic
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Engineering At SIFT
 
 
 
 You'll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we're still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:
 
 
 <ul>
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 Web frontend &amp; backend: ECharts, Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Protobuf, Radix, React, Redux, and TypeScript
 </li>
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 Data: Arrow, DataFusion, Flink, Parquet, and Rust
 </li>
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 Infrastructure: Argo CD, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, Prometheus, and Terragrunt
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 Location:
 
 
 
 Sift&rsquo;s headquarters is in
 
 Marina Del Rey, CA
 
 (Next to LAX). We collaborate
 
 in person
 
 twice a week&mdash;on
 
 Mondays and Thursdays
 
 &mdash;and come together for a full week every two months. We are open to
 
 relocating candidates to LA
 
 or
 
 working from our San Francisco
 
 office for the right candidate.
 
 
 Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.
 
 
 
 Eligibility
 
 
 
 
 U.S. Person Required
 
 : Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.
</div>

Software Engineer, Full Stack

Information Technology Senior Management Forum

<div><div>Posted Date
6/29/2026
</div><div>Description
<div>Senior Lead AI Engineer(MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services)
Overview:
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 &mdash; along with our deep experience in machine learning &mdash; 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 &amp; 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. 
In this role, you will:<ul><li>
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.</li><li>
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.</li><li>
Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.</li><li>
Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance &mdash; scalability, cost, latency, throughput &mdash; of large scale production AI systems.</li><li>
Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.</li></ul>
The Ideal Candidate:<ul><li>
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.</li><li>
Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.</li><li>
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.</li><li>
You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enable you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss.</li><li>
You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.</li></ul>
Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 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 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies</li><li>
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>
7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)</li><li>
Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders</li><li>
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang</li><li>
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost</li><li>
Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production</li><li>
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers</li></ul>
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

Cambridge, MA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

New York, NY: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

San Francisco, CA: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

San Jose, CA: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate&rsquo;s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.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&rsquo;s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia&rsquo;s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).
Senior Lead AI Engineer(MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services)
Overview:
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 &mdash; along with our deep experience in machine learning &mdash; 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 &amp; 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. 
In this role, you will:<ul><li>
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.</li><li>
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components including foundation model training, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, model evaluation, experimentation, governance, and observability, etc.</li><li>
Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.</li><li>
Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance &mdash; scalability, cost, latency, throughput &mdash; of large scale production AI systems.</li><li>
Contribute to the technical vision and the long term roadmap of foundational AI systems at Capital One.</li></ul>
The Ideal Candidate:<ul><li>
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.</li><li>
Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.</li><li>
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.</li><li>
You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enable you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss.</li><li>
You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.</li></ul>
Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 6 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 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies</li><li>
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Go, Scala, or Java</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>
7 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud)</li><li>
Experience designing, developing, integrating, delivering, and supporting complex AI systems</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor an engineering team and influence cross-functional stakeholders</li><li>
Experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies (e.g. LLM Inference, Similarity Search and VectorDBs, Guardrails, Memory) using Python, C++, C#, Java, or Golang</li><li>
Experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference software to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost</li><li>
Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production</li><li>
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers</li></ul>
Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

Cambridge, MA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

New York, NY: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

San Francisco, CA: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 

San Jose, CA: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr. Lead AI Engineer 
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate&rsquo;s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.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&rsquo;s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia&rsquo;s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com
Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.
Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).</div>
</div><div>Salary
229,900.00 - 262,400.00 Annual
</div><div></div><div><div>Type<div>
Full-time</div></div></div></div>

Senior Lead AI Engineer(MLX, Agentic AI, Gen AI platform Services)

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