Lead Machine Learning Engineer – MLOps, KServe, Kubernetes, PyTorch, TensorFlow, AWS

Capital One

Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Capital One responsible for productionizing ML applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive AI innovation. Engaging in design, development, and implementation of scalable solutions across the company.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeMcLean • California, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $179,400 - $245,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonPyTorchScalaScikit-LearnSparkTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Participate in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications using existing and emerging technology platforms.
Focus on machine learning architectural design, develop and review model and application code, and ensure high availability and performance of our machine learning applications.
Continuously learn and apply the latest innovations and best practices in machine learning engineering.
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 ML infrastructure decisions using 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
Performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningPythonScalaJavaML frameworksscikit-learnPyTorchDaskSparkTensorFlow

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingleadershipcommunicationAgile methodology

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreeDoctoral degree