Capital One Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

981604356

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer

As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be providing technical leadership to engineering teams dedicated to productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You’ll participate in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. You’ll serve as a technical domain expert in machine learning, guiding machine learning architectural design decisions, developing and reviewing model and application code, and ensuring high availability and performance of our machine learning applications. You'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and apply the latest innovations and best practices in machine learning engineering. You’ll also mentor other engineers and further develop your technical knowledge and skills to keep Capital One at the cutting edge of technology.

In this role, you will be supporting the Bank Tech organization. You will lead development and implementation that will enable business initiatives, working with other leaders and teams across the enterprise to enable these solutions.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Deliver ML models and software components that solve challenging business problems in the financial services industry, working in collaboration with the Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams.

• Drive the creation and evolution of ML models and software that enable state-of-the-art intelligent systems.

• Lead large-scale ML initiatives with the customer in mind.

• Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies to deliver optimized ML models at scale.

• Optimize data pipelines to feed ML models.

• Use programming languages like Python, Scala, C/C++.

• Leverage compute technologies such as Dask and RAPIDS

• Evangelize best practices in all aspects of the engineering and modeling lifecycles.

• Help recruit, nurture, and retain top engineering talent.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

• At least 10 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing.

• At least 6 years of experience programming in C, C++, Python, or Scala.

• At least 3 years of experience with the full ML development lifecycle using modern technology in a business critical setting.

• At least 2 years of experience using Dask, RAPIDS, or in High Performance Computing

• At least 2 years of experience with the PyData ecosystem (NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field.

• 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models.

• 8+ years of experience within a large/data-intensive multi-line business environment.

• Experience partnering with technology peers responsible for data architecture and distributed computing infrastructure/platforms.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences.

• ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, or open source contributions.

• Ability to attract and develop high-performing software engineers with an inspiring leadership style.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $274,800 - $313,600 for Distinguished Machine Learning EngineerThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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