Director, Machine Learning Engineer

Director, Machine Learning Engineer

Do you love building and pioneering in the AI and technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Machine Learning Engineers who are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge open source frameworks, advanced algorithms, and emerging technologies to join our team. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving major AI transformations and scaling production models across Capital One.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver ML models and software components that solve challenging business problems in the financial services industry, working in collaboration with the Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams
• Drive the creation and evolution of ML models and software that enable state-of-the-art intelligent systems
• Lead large-scale ML initiatives with the customer in mind
• Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies to deliver optimized ML models at scale
• Optimize data pipelines to feed ML models
• Use programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java
• Evangelize best practices in all aspects of the engineering and modeling lifecycles
• Recruit, nurture, and retain top engineering talent
• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers
• Recruit, nurture, and retain top engineering talent
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community

Basic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience
• At least 8 years of experience programming with Python, Java, Golang, or C++
• At least 6 years of Machine Learning experience using industry standard frameworks PyTorch or Tensorflow and libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn)
• At least 6 years of experience using and operating large scale distributed systems (Spark, Ray) to prepare AI or Machine Learning data
• At least 5 years of experience deploying and operating Machine Learning solutions in production and operating production services in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and using Kubernetes to manage large scale containerized Machine Learning software systems

Preferred

Qualifications

• Master's or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• 5+ years of experience managing and leading an engineering team
• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing resilient, large-scale, production machine learning systems from data preparation, to model training, and inference
• 5+ years of experience optimizing ML algorithms, configurations, and infrastructure
• 5+ years of experience working with Machine Learning techniques (Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised, reinforcement learning, etc.) model types (Regression, Classification, Clustering, etc.), model Architectures (RNNs, CNNs, LSTMs, Transformers), training concepts (loss function, hyperparameters, regularization), and how to evaluate model accuracy and diagnose and address common issues (underfitting, overfitting)
• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling production-ready data pipelines for training and evaluating ML models
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences
• Driving impacts in the ML industry through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions or patents
• Experience hiring and developing high-performing ML engineers with an inspiring leadership style
• Highly developed interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills
• Driving impacts in the ML industry through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions or patents

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Machine Learning Engineer