Lead Machine Learning Engineer-Manager IC

Capital One - Plano, TX

Full-time - Manager

Plano, TX

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About the position

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer-Manager at Capital One, you will be part of an Agile team focused on productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. This role involves the technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications, ensuring high availability and performance while applying the latest innovations in machine learning engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver ML models and components that solve real-world business problems in collaboration with Product and Data Science teams.
• Inform ML infrastructure decisions using understanding of ML modeling techniques, including model choice, data, feature selection, 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 for big data and ML applications.
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
• Leverage or build cloud-based architectures and technologies to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
• Construct optimized data pipelines to feed ML models.
• Leverage continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code.
• Ensure all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities and that models are well-governed from a risk perspective, following best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 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 ML systems.

Nice-to-haves

• 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 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• Financial benefits supporting total well-being.
• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.