Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Intelligent Foundations and Experiences)
Job Description
Capital One is hiring a Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer in New York, NY onsite to productionize ML applications, lead cross-functional teams, and build scalable AI-driven products, with a salary range of USD 250,800 - 286,200 per year.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross functional pods of software, data, and ML engineers to develop AI and ML capabilities for Credit and Financial Risk Management products, acting as a technical mentor on core technologies
- Design and deliver AI powered products and components that address real business needs, applying model experimentation, LLM inference, similarity search, and agentic AI within a collaborative Product and Data Science setting
- Partner with engineers, data scientists, and designers to develop scalable AI powered products that improve associate performance and deliver standout customer value
- Guide ML infrastructure choices based on modeling techniques and challenges, including model selection, data and feature considerations, training, hyperparameters, dimensionality, bias/variance, and validation
- Develop and validate ML models, write application code, and automate tests and deployment to address complex problems
- Retrain, maintain, and monitor deployed models in production
- Utilize or build cloud based architectures and platforms to deploy scalable ML models
- Create efficient data pipelines to feed ML models
- Apply CI/CD best practices, with test automation and monitoring, to ensure reliable deployment of ML models and code
- Ensure code is well managed to minimize vulnerabilities, maintain model governance, and follow Responsible and Explainable AI practices
- Utilize a broad mix of open source and SaaS AI technologies, with proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- 8+ years designing and building data‑intensive solutions on distributed computing platforms; internship experience not eligible
- 4+ years programming in Python, Scala, or Java
- 3+ years building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems
- 2+ years leading teams delivering ML solutions
Technologies
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- AWS Bedrock
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Financial benefits
- Performance-based incentive compensation