Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One•San Francisco, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), you'll be part of an Agile team dedicated to productionizing machine learning applications and systems at scale. You’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. About the Team: The Transaction Core team, a key part of the PINT (Payments Intelligence) organization, is dedicated to building and maintaining the foundational data platforms that empower Capital One to understand and act on customer spend. Our mission is to provide an actionable understanding of purchase transactions to enrich our customer's financial lives through real-time, intelligent, and resilient platform-based services. We manage the core services like the Transaction Datastore (TDS), which processes billions of transactions annually and serves as the 'transaction core' for numerous machine learning models, including those for fraud and subscription detection. We are currently focused on completing the Transaction Core to include a universal view of all payment types—Card, Bank (Debit & ACH), and External FI transactions. This modernization effort involves componentizing our data assets for technical flexibility and improving the velocity of our recurring insights models. Our work is critical, powering engaging digital experiences like subscription management and enhanced transaction views in customer-facing applications (EASE) and agent tools (Empath). If you are passionate about solving complex, large-scale data and ML challenges to deliver 'platinum grade' customer experiences, this is the place to make a broad impact across the company.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 6 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing (Internship experience does not apply)
At least 4 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java
At least 2 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems

Nice To Haves

Master's or Doctoral Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field
3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed ML models
3+ years of on-the-job experience with an industry recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow
2+ years of experience developing performant, resilient, and maintainable code
2+ years of experience with data gathering and preparation for ML models
2+ years of people leader experience
1+ years of experience leading teams developing ML solutions using industry best practices, patterns, and automation
Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance
ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents
Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity, utilizing capabilities beyond basic code completion

Responsibilities

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