Senior Machine Learning Engineer; AI Foundations

As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), you'll be part of an Agile team dedicated to product ionizing machine learning applications and systems 'll participate in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of machine learning applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. You'll focus on machine learning architectural design, develop and review model and application code, and ensure high availability and performance of our machine learning applications.

You'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and apply the latest innovations and best practices in machine learning engineering.

Capital One is accelerating the adoption of state of the art AI research to create simpler, safer banking experiences for over 100 million customers. The AI Foundations team spearheads this mission by developing advanced LLMs and autonomous agentic systems capable of complex reasoning and real world problem solving. Their comprehensive research framework prioritizes foundational model architecture, operational efficiency, and responsible AI practices to ensure all systems are trustworthy and scalable.

What You'll Do:

The MLE role overlaps with many disciplines, such as Ops, Modeling, and Data Engineering. In this role, you'll be expected to perform many ML engineering activities, including one or more of the following:

• Design, build, and/or deliver ML models and components that solve real-world business problems, while working in collaboration with the Product and Data Science teams

• Inform your ML infrastructure decisions using your understanding of ML modeling techniques and issues, including choice of model, data, and feature selection, model training, hyperparameter tuning, dimensionality, bias/variance, 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 that enables state-of-the-art big data and ML applications

• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production

• Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale.

• Construct optimized data pipelines to feed ML models

• Leverage continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices, including test automation and monitoring, to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code

• Ensure all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities, models are well-governed from a risk perspective, and the ML follows best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI

• Use programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java (Internship experience does not apply)

• At least 3 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing

• At least 2 years of on-the-job experience with an industry recognized ML frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or Tensor Flow)

• At least 1 year of experience product ionizing, monitoring, and maintaining models

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems

• 1+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models

• 2+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code

• Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

• Master's or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field

• 3+ years of experience with distributed file systems or multi-node database paradigms

• Contributed to open source ML software

• Authored/co-authored a paper on a ML technique, model, or proof of concept

• 3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models

• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance

• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

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).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.