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Machine Learning Engineer 5 (Senior Manager, IC)

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$209,000 - $238,500 per year

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Description

We are seeking Machine Learning Engineers who are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge open source frameworks, advanced algorithms, and emerging technologies.

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.

Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • Build and scale massive multi-tenant platforms that enable running large footprint ML model training and/or serving at scale
  • 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 6 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
  • At least 6 years of experience using and operating large scale distributed systems to prepare AI/ML data
  • At least 4 years 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
  • 5+ years of experience optimizing ML algorithms, configurations, and infrastructure
  • 5+ years of experience following software development best practices
  • 5+ years of experience building resilient software solutions with pre-production testing, advanced deployment techniques, monitoring, alarms, and preparing incident response plans
  • 5+ years of experience working with Machine Learning techniques, model types, model Architectures, training concepts, and how to evaluate model accuracy
  • 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and scaling production-ready data pipelines for training and evaluating ML models
  • ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents
  • Ability to communicate complex technical and machine learning concepts clearly to a variety of audiences

Salary Information:

  • Chicago, IL: $209,000 - $238,500 for Machine Learning Engineer 5

Benefits:

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

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Master's or doctoral degree in computer science
  • Experience optimizing ML algorithms
  • Software development best practices
  • Resilient software solutions
  • Machine Learning techniques
  • Model Architectures
  • Data pipelines
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