Lead ML Architect: Scale Production Models & AI Systems

Capital One Financial Corporation; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance incentives

Health benefits

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join an Agile team focused on productionizing ML applications and systems at scale. You will drive the design, development, and deployment of ML models and data pipelines, collaborating with Product and Data Science teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

In McLean, VA, the role pays $229,900–$262,400 for Sr. Lead ML Engineer, with additional incentives and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years designing and building data-intensive solutions with distributed computing.
• 4+ years coding in Python, Scala, or Java and 3+ years leading ML teams.
• Experience building production ML systems and scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver ML models and components with cross-functional teams.
• Inform infrastructure decisions and optimize data, features, and model training.
• Write and test production code, validate models, and automate tests/deployments.
• Collaborate in an Agile environment to enable scalable big data/ML apps.
• Retrain, monitor, and maintain models in production; ensure governance.
• Leverage cloud architectures to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
• Construct data pipelines feeding ML models and implement CI/CD best practices.
• Ensure code quality, responsible AI practices, and explainability.

Skills

Python

Scala

Java

ML model design

CI/CD for ML

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's or PhD in CS/EE/Math

Tools

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Spark

Dask

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join an Agile team focused on productionizing ML applications and systems at scale. You will drive the design, development, and deployment of ML models and data pipelines, collaborating with Product and Data Science teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

In McLean, VA, the role pays $229,900–$262,400 for Sr. Lead ML Engineer, with additional incentives and comprehensive benefits.