Sr. Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One is seeking a Sr Lead Machine Learning Engineer for an onsite role in McLean, VA. The position offers a competitive salary range of USD 229,900 - 262,400 per year, comprehensive health and financial benefits, and performance-based incentives. You will join an Agile team focused on designing, developing, and productionizing scalable ML applications and architectures, collaborating with Product and Data Science teams to drive real-world impact while ensuring high availability and performance.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Performance-based incentive compensation (cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and/or deliver ML models and components that solve real-world business problems, while working in collaboration with the Product and Data Science teams
• Inform your ML infrastructure decisions using your understanding of ML modeling techniques and issues, including choice of model, data, and feature selection, model training, hyperparameter tuning, dimensionality, bias/variance, and validation
• Solve complex problems by writing and testing application code, developing and validating ML models, and automating tests and deployment
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that enables state-of-the-art big data and ML applications
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production
• Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale
• Construct optimized data pipelines to feed ML models
• Leverage continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices, including test automation and monitoring, to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code
• Ensure all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities, models are well-governed from a risk perspective, and the ML follows best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI
• Use programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java

Technologies

• Python
• Scala
• Java
• scikit-learn
• PyTorch
• Dask
• Spark
• TensorFlow
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 8 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java
• At least 3 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
• At least 2 years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or Doctoral Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field
• Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• 4+ years of on-the-job experience with an industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow
• 3+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
• 3+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models
• 3+ years of people management experience
• ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents
• 3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion