Distinguished Engineer - Agentic AI (Remote-Eligible)

About the role

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud. You will work alongside talented developers, machine learning experts, product managers, and people leaders. Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, optimizing business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

In this role, you will focus on Business Cards & Payments (BC&P), whose mission is to help businesses do more business. The advent of Agentic AI offers massive new opportunities for BC&P to do so through real-time marketing and hyper-personalized sales systems. You will move BC&P beyond manual and reactive marketing and sales tools, creating a destination architecture for marketing platforms, building tools to enhance sales team effectiveness, and laying the technical foundations of a real-time marketing strategy.

You will make direct contributions by defining long-term technical strategy and hands-on prototyping, launching, and scaling agentic systems. Example areas include:

• Real-time, hyper-personalized marketing systems that accurately and explainably prospect and engage new business customers.
• Assistive technologies that arm field agents with superhuman knowledge and context to grow deeper relationships and close more sales.
• Exploration of autonomous sales agents (AISDRs) that self-improve via RLAIF.

You will lead through direct technical contribution, prototyping new features and systems, acting as a trusted advisor for key technologies, shaping future architecture, and sharing knowledge internally and externally. Additionally, you will promote engineering excellence, foster an inclusive environment, and mentor the next generation of technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype and assess new technologies that enable hyper-personalized marketing and assistive field sales systems.
• Partner with and influence enterprise and card tech organizations to develop the best agentic marketing and sales systems.
• Establish and evangelize technical charters to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies.
• Bridge the gap between current systems and the future, ensuring existing systems remain healthy and continue to serve the business.
• Clear roadblocks for developers across the organization with exceptional judgment for technical, process, or risk-acceptance solutions.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, coaching and strengthening technical expertise.
• Provide architectural guidance and designs for large-scale cross-domain programs.
• Work with engineering teams to design and execute PoCs and contribute hands-on code and reviews where necessary.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 7 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 3 years of experience with AWS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience working on applied and agentic AI systems.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate "Agentic AI" concepts into business value.
• 10+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• 10+ years of experience coding in at least one of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift.
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

Pay

The annual salary ranges for this role are as follows:

• Remote (Regardless of Location): $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer.
• McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Distinguished Engineer.
• Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Distinguished Engineer.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. The actual annualized salary offered will be reflected in the candidate’s offer letter. This role is also eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.