Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA
Salary
$229,900–$262,400 / yr
Posted
93 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $246k
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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $195,112–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k 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 · Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer

As a Sr. Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will join an Agile team dedicated to 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 that solve real-world business problems, constructing optimized data pipelines, and managing model retraining and monitoring in production environments. To succeed, you must utilize programming languages such as Python, Scala, or Java, along with frameworks like scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow. You will also leverage cloud-based platforms to deliver scalable solutions while ensuring all code follows best practices for Responsible and Explainable AI. This role focuses on the technical challenge of integrating big data and machine learning into robust, production-ready software systems.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and deliver machine learning models and components that solve real-world business problems.
  • Develop and review high-quality application code using Python, Scala, or Java.
  • Construct optimized data pipelines to feed machine learning models.
  • Build and manage cloud-based architectures to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
  • Retrain, maintain, and monitor machine learning models in production environments.
  • Implement CI/CD best practices, including test automation and monitoring, for model deployment.
  • Ensure all models follow best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI.
  • Inform infrastructure decisions based on modeling techniques like feature selection, hyperparameter tuning, and validation.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's or Doctoral degree in a related field preferred.
  • At least 8 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 3 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems.
  • At least 2 years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions.
  • At least 4 years of experience with industry-recognized ML frameworks like scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow.
  • At least 3 years of experience developing performant code and preparing data for ML models.
  • At least 3 years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models.

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