Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYRichmond, VAPlano, TXMcLean, VASan Jose, CA
Salary
$179,400–$204,700 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $225k
This role $192k
$169k most similar roles pay here $273k

This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $195,000–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $225k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $197,300–$225,100 across 992 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Machine Learning Engineer

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will join an Agile team focused on productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You will be responsible for the technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning architectures while ensuring high availability and performance. Your daily work involves building and delivering models to solve real-world business problems, constructing optimized data pipelines, and managing model retraining, monitoring, and governance. The role requires collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop software that enables state-of-the-art big data applications. You will utilize Python, Scala, or Java along with frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow. Additionally, you will leverage cloud-based architectures and CI/CD best practices to deliver scalable solutions. This specific role focuses on creating impact through the development of enterprise-wide AI coding tools.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and implement machine learning applications and systems at scale.
  • Build and deliver ML models that solve real-world business problems for product teams.
  • Inform infrastructure decisions based on model training, hyperparameter tuning, and feature selection.
  • Write and test application code while automating testing and deployment processes.
  • Construct optimized data pipelines to feed machine learning models.
  • Retrain, maintain, and monitor machine learning models in production environments.
  • Build and manage cloud-based architectures to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
  • Ensure all code follows best practices for Responsible and Explainable AI.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's or Doctoral degrees in related fields are preferred.
  • At least 6 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing.
  • At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java.
  • At least 2 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing machine learning systems.
  • At least 3 years of experience with industry-recognized ML frameworks like scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow.
  • At least 3 years of experience building production-ready data pipelines for machine learning models.
  • At least 2 years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code.
  • Work authorization that require immigration support from an employer.

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