Lead Machine Learning Engineer

About the Team

As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), you will join an Agile team dedicated to productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. Our mission is to bridge the gap between data science innovation and real-world business impact, ensuring that machine learning solutions are robust, scalable, and ready for the demands of a financial services environment.

About the Role

This role is designed for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of operations, modeling, and data engineering. You will participate in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications using both existing and emerging technology platforms. Your focus will be on architectural design, code review, and ensuring the high availability and performance of our ML infrastructure.

In this position, you will collaborate closely with Product and Data Science teams to solve complex problems. You will be expected to inform infrastructure decisions based on a deep understanding of modeling techniques, including feature selection, hyperparameter tuning, and bias/variance trade-offs. The role involves retraining, maintaining, and monitoring models in production while leveraging cloud-based architectures to deliver optimized solutions. You will also champion best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI, ensuring all code is well-managed and models are governed from a risk perspective.

Hiring Process

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. The actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please.

Equal Opportunity & Culture

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We promote a drug-free workplace and consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. We are committed to providing a supportive environment where you can continuously learn and apply the latest innovations in machine learning engineering.

Important Notice

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

If you require an accommodation to apply for a position, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential.