Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Capital One, focused on productionizing ML applications and systems at scale within the Bank Tech Data, Decisioning, & Market Services Domain. The role involves designing, building, and delivering ML models, optimizing ML infrastructure, developing and validating models, automating tests and deployment, and maintaining models in production using cloud-based architectures and CI/CD best practices. It also includes constructing data pipelines and ensuring responsible AI practices.

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

  • Python
  • Scala
  • Java
  • designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
  • building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
  • ML modeling techniques
  • ML infrastructure
  • model training
  • hyperparameter tuning
  • validation
  • application code
  • automating tests and deployment
  • big data and ML applications
  • cloud-based architectures
  • data pipelines
  • continuous integration
  • continuous deployment
  • test automation
  • monitoring
  • Responsible and Explainable AI

Nice to have

  • Master's or Doctoral Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field
  • building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models
  • industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow
  • developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
  • data gathering and preparation for ML models
  • people leader experience
  • leading teams developing ML solutions using industry best practices, patterns, and automation
  • developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • 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
  • leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

What the JD emphasized

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • scaling our AI-driven decisioning models
  • design, build, and/or deliver ML models and components
  • 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
  • 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

Other signals

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • evolving our predictive insights and scaling our AI-driven decisioning models
  • design, build, and/or deliver ML models and components
  • retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production
  • Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale