Role context: This onsite Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Manager IC) role at Capital One centers on designing, deploying, and supporting AI powered software and ML systems across Risk Tech. The position collaborates with cross-functional teams to help shape Capital One's long-term AI roadmap.
Role Overview
This position leads the development and operationalization of AI and ML capabilities, ensuring robust, scalable solutions that drive value for associates and customers within Risk Tech. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic vision to advance Capital One's AI agenda.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to deliver AI powered products that improve associates' workflows and create customer value.
- Architect, build, test, deploy, and support AI software components that rely on machine learning models, including evaluation, experimentation, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, governance, observability, and agentic AI.
- Fine-tune, develop, and evaluate machine learning and foundation models.
- Work within a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that leverages state-of-the-art AI and ML capabilities.
- Provide thought leadership and technical vision for the long-term AI systems roadmap at Capital One.
- Utilize a broad stack of open source and SaaS AI technologies.
- Inform ML infrastructure decisions with a solid understanding of modeling techniques and associated issues.
- Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
- Design optimized data pipelines to feed ML models.
- Ensure code quality and security, maintain model governance from a risk perspective, and follow responsible and explainable AI best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelorβs Degree.
- Minimum six years of experience designing and building dataβintensive solutions using distributed computing (internship experience not applicable).
- At least four years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java.
- At least two years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems.
Technologies
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- Dask
- Spark
- TensorFlow
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AWS Bedrock
- Google Cloud
- Azure
Benefits
- Performance-based incentive compensation (cash bonus and or long term incentives).
- Health benefits.
- Financial benefits.
The Ideal Candidate
Strategic & BusinessβOriented
Looks beyond technology to understand business needs and how AI can deliver value. Prioritizes work that translates into meaningful business outcomes.
Highly Collaborative & Transparent
Works effectively across engineering, product, and data science teams. Communicates progress, blockers, and decisions clearly, and shares knowledge to support the teamβs success.
Technically Mature & Humble
Grounded in engineering and mathematics, capable of clarifying complex problems and articulating findings concisely. Demonstrates professional maturity in aligning with team decisions.
Flexible & Fungible
Willing to contribute across the tech stack and adapt to changing priorities, providing value wherever needed.
A Lifelong Learner
Keeps current with AI research and responsibly applies novel techniques to production systems, with a clear focus on business impact.