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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Capital One

$175,800 - $220,700
Dec 16, 2025
McLean, VA, US
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Capital One is seeking to solve the problem of transforming banking through responsible and reliable AI-powered systems. In Risk Tech, the goal is to build data-driven tools that use machine learning to prevent risks and automatically detect issues before they impact customers, the business, or communities.

Requirements

  • 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, Go, Scala, or Java.
  • At least 3 years of experience deploying scalable software solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent private cloud).
  • Experience designing, implementing, and scaling complex data pipelines for ML models and evaluating their performance.
  • Experience deploying scalable AI/ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, Azure.
  • 2 years of experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
  • 3 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies using Python.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and provide value to our customers.
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI software components utilizing machine learning models, including model evaluation and experimentation, large language model inference, similarity search, guardrails, governance, observability and agentic AI.
  • Fine-tune, develop and evaluate machine learning and foundation models.
  • Collaborate as part of a cross-functional Agile team to create and enhance software that utilizes state-of-the-art AI and ML capabilities.
  • Contribute thought leadership and technical vision to the long term roadmap of pioneering AI systems at Capital One.
  • Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies.
  • Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.

Other

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields plus at least 2 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies.
  • Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.
  • 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).
  • You are a passionate communicator, comfortable with explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical partners across the business, sometimes in front of large audiences.