
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Capital One
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: McLean • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $197,300 - $225,100 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 6 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 2 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
- Master's or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field (preferred)
- 3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models (preferred)
- 3+ years of on-the-job experience with an industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow (preferred)
- 2+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code (preferred)
- 2+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models (preferred)
- 2+ years of people leader experience (preferred)
- 1+ years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions using industry best practices, patterns, and automation (preferred)
- Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (preferred)
- Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance (preferred)
- ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents (preferred)
Benefits
- Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningdata pipelinesmodel traininghyperparameter tuningprogramming in Pythonprogramming in Scalaprogramming in JavaML frameworksdata gatheringautomated testing
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingleadershipcommunicationcross-functional teamworkorganizational skillsresponsible AI practicesexplainable AI practices
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeDoctoral degree