Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Python, AWS, SQL, GenAI) (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

Capital One National Association; New York (NY); On-site; USD 215,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to productionize ML applications at scale within the Enterprise Platforms Technology group in New York, NY. This role focuses on ML architectural design, model and application code development, and ensuring high availability and performance of ML systems.

You'll collaborate across Product, Data Science, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable ML pipelines, retrain and monitor models in production, and leverage cloud-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• 6+ years designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing.
• 4+ years programming with Python, Scala, or Java.
• 2+ years building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver ML models and components in collaboration with Product and Data Science teams.
• Inform ML infrastructure decisions using ML modeling techniques, data, features, training, and validation.
• Write and test application code, validate models, and automate tests and deployment.
• Collaborate in a cross-functional Agile team to create software for ML at scale.
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
• Leverage cloud architectures to deliver ML models at scale.
• Construct optimized data pipelines for ML models.
• Apply CI/CD, test automation, and monitoring for ML deployments.
• Ensure code governance and Responsible AI practices.
• Use Python, Scala, or Java.

Skills

Distributed computing

Python

Scala

Java

ML model deployment

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's or Doctoral Degree

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Spark

TensorFlow

Dask

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Python, AWS, SQL, GenAI) (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), you'll be part of an Agile team 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 focus on machine learning architectural design, develop and review model and application code, and ensure 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.

Team:

The Marketing and Messaging team is responsible for delivering hyper-personalized messages and experiences that will delight the customer, attract prospects and drive increasing business value. The team builds scalable platforms that deliver omnichannel messages in owned and paid Adtech channels.

What you’ll do in the role:

In this role, you'll be expected to perform many ML engineering activities, including one or more of the following:

• 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

New York, NY: $215,200 - $245,600 for Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This 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.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

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