Senior Distinguished Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA
Salary
$314,800–$359,300 / yr
Posted
81 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $207k
This role $337k
$134k most similar roles pay here $383k

This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $157,962–$256,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $337k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 · Senior Distinguished Engineer

As a Sr. Distinguished Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to engineering teams focused on productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You will serve as a technical domain expert, guiding architectural design decisions, developing and reviewing model code, and ensuring high availability for machine learning applications within the financial services industry. Your daily responsibilities include building software components to solve complex business problems, optimizing data pipelines, and evangelizing best practices across the engineering and modeling lifecycles. You will utilize a technical stack including Python, Scala, C/C++, Dask, RAPIDS, and the PyData ecosystem featuring NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn. Additionally, you will leverage cloud-based architectures to deliver optimized models while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with product, architecture, engineering, and data science teams to create state-of-the-art intelligent systems.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership for engineering teams to productionize machine learning applications at scale.
  • Design and implement machine learning architectures using emerging technology platforms.
  • Develop, review, and optimize model and application code for high availability and performance.
  • Build and optimize data pipelines to feed machine learning models.
  • Deliver ML models and software components that solve complex financial services problems.
  • Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies like Dask and RAPIDS to deliver optimized models.
  • Evangelize best practices across the entire engineering and modeling lifecycles.
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering talent.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or Master's degree.
  • At least 10 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing.
  • At least 7 years of experience programming in C, C++, Python, or Scala.
  • At least 4 years of experience with the full ML development lifecycle in a business critical setting.
  • 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling production-ready data pipelines for ML models.
  • 3+ years of experience using Dask, RAPIDS, or High Performance Computing.
  • 3+ years of experience with the PyData ecosystem including NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to various audiences.

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