Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One Capital One · Banking · San Francisco, CA +3

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Capital One focused on productionizing ML applications and systems at scale. Responsibilities include designing, building, and delivering ML models, informing ML infrastructure decisions, writing and testing code, automating tests and deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams, retraining/maintaining/monitoring production models, leveraging cloud architectures, constructing data pipelines, and ensuring CI/CD best practices, code security, risk governance, and Responsible/Explainable AI. Requires experience in building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems and data-intensive solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. Solve complex problems by writing and testing application code, developing and validating ML models, and automating tests and deployment.
  4. 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.
  5. Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 6 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
  • 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java
  • 2 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems

Nice to have

  • Master's or Doctoral Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field
  • 3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models
  • 3+ years of on-the-job experience with an industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow
  • 2+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
  • 2+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models
  • 2+ years of people leader experience
  • 1+ years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions using industry best practices, patterns, and automation
  • Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance
  • ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents

What the JD emphasized

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
  • building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models
  • developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
  • developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud
  • designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models

Other signals

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • design, build, and/or deliver ML models and components
  • automating tests and deployment
  • 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
  • continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
  • Responsible and Explainable AI