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Machine Learning Engineer 3

Capital One McLean, VA senior full-time

Salary

$161,800 - $184,600 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer 3 to join our team at Capital One. 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:

  • Design, build, and deliver ML models and components that solve real-world business problems, while working in collaboration with the Product and Data Science teams
  • Inform ML infrastructure decisions using your understanding of ML modeling techniques and issues
  • 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
  • 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 or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related quantitative field
  • At least 3 years of experience programming with Python, Java, Golang, or C++
  • At least 2 years of Machine Learning experience using industry standard frameworks PyTorch or Tensorflow and libraries
  • At least 3 years of experience using and operating large scale distributed systems
  • At least 1 year of experience deploying and operating Machine Learning solutions in production and operating production services in the cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
  • 1+ years of experience optimizing ML algorithms, configurations, and infrastructure
  • 1+ years of experience following software development best practices
  • 1+ years of experience building resilient software solutions with pre-production testing, advanced deployment techniques, monitoring, alarms, and preparing incident response plans
  • 1+ years of experience working with Machine Learning techniques, model types, model Architectures, training concepts, and how to evaluate model accuracy and diagnose and address common issues
  • Authored/co-authored a paper on a ML technique, model, or proof of concept
  • 1+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling production-ready data pipelines for training and evaluating ML models

Salary Information:

  • McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600 for Machine Learning Engineer 3
  • New York, NY: $176,500 - $201,400 for Machine Learning Engineer 3
  • Plano, TX: $147,100 - $167,900 for Machine Learning Engineer 3
  • Richmond, VA: $147,100 - $167,900 for Machine Learning Engineer 3

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being

Skills

Nice to have

  • Master's or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • optimizing ML algorithms
  • configurations
  • infrastructure
  • software development best practices
  • resilient software solutions
  • pre-production testing
  • advanced deployment techniques
  • monitoring
  • alarms
  • incident response plans
  • Machine Learning techniques
  • model types
  • model Architectures
  • training concepts
  • evaluating model accuracy
  • diagnosing and addressing common issues

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