Senior. Distinguished AI Engineer - Agentic AI Platform (Remote Eligible) at Capital One
Atlanta, GA
$286,200–$326,700from the description
Jul 18, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and evolving an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform. Core work spans defining platform architecture for agent orchestration and RAG pipelines, evaluating and standardizing agentic frameworks, developing a GenAI SDK and tooling for internal engineers, and designing central guardrail and safety services. The role also involves Kubernetes-based infrastructure ownership and mentoring senior engineering staff.
Principal level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 9 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 16,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 9,700–24,100
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Sr. Distinguished AI Engineer' maps to Principal seniority: it is Capital One's top-of-ladder individual-contributor band, explicitly above Staff and Principal in the mentoring hierarchy described in the JD (the role coaches Staff, Principal, and Senior engineers). Advertised seniority is set to Principal accordingly.
The 10-year minimum experience gate comes from the Basic Qualifications (Bachelor's + 10 years, or Master's + 8 years); 10 years is used as the binding floor.
Degree requirement is Bachelor's (the minimum stated path); a Master's is listed as preferred, not required.
Compensation figures shown are for the Remote tier ($286,200–$326,700/year); location-specific ranges (Cambridge, McLean, New York, San Francisco, San Jose) are higher but the caller has designated this a fully-remote, national-pool role.
All preferred qualifications (cloud platforms, agentic frameworks, LLMOps tools, Kubernetes, VectorDBs, etc.) are listed under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are marked accordingly.
LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, and LlamaIndex appear in the role narrative as frameworks to evaluate; LangChain/CrewAI/Semantic Kernel/AutoGen also appear under Preferred Qualifications with a 2-year figure — the preferred-section skill captures that gate.
The role is eligible for performance-based incentive compensation (cash bonus and/or LTI) in addition to the base salary range.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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