Sr. Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One Capital One · Banking · New York, NY +4

Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer role focused on productionizing ML applications and systems at scale within a fintech company. Responsibilities include designing, building, and delivering ML models, informing ML infrastructure decisions, writing and testing code, automating tests and deployment, retraining/maintaining/monitoring production models, leveraging cloud architectures, constructing data pipelines, and ensuring responsible AI practices. The role emphasizes scaling ML solutions and integrating them into production environments.

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. Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
  5. Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 8 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
  • 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java
  • 3 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
  • 2 years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions

Nice to have

  • 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, Kubeflow or TensorFlow
  • 3+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
  • 3+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • 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
  • Responsible and Explainable AI

Other signals

  • productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale
  • 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
  • continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
  • Responsible and Explainable AI