Lead Machine Learning Engineer; Gen AI, Python, Go, AWS

Overview

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Gen AI, Python, Go, AWS). As a Capital One Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) on the GenAI Workflows Serving team, you ll be part of an Agile team dedicated to designing, building, and product ionizing Generative AI applications and Agentic Workflow systems at massive scale. You ll participate in the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of complex machine learning applications leveraging cloud-native platforms.

You ll focus on building robust ML serving architecture, developing high-performance application code, and ensuring the high availability, security, and low latency of our Generative AI solutions. You will collaborate closely with multiple other AI/ML teams to drive innovation and continuously apply the latest innovations and best practices in machine learning engineering.

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 deliver GenAI models and components that solve complex business problems, in collaboration with the Product and Data Science teams.
• Design and implement cloud-native ML Serving Platforms leveraging technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, KNative, and KServe to ensure optimized and scalable deployment of models.
• Solve complex scaling and high-availability problems by writing and testing performant application code in Python and Go, developing and validating ML models, and automating tests and deployment.
• Implement advanced MLOps and Git Ops practices for CI/CD using ArgoCD to manage the lifecycle of models and applications.
• Leverage service mesh architectures like Istio to manage traffic, enhance security, and ensure resilience for high-volume serving endpoints.
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
• Construct optimized, scalable data pipelines to feed ML models.
• Ensure 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 such as Python, Go, Scala, or Java.

• 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, Go or Java
• At least 2 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing ML systems

• Master  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 Tensor Flow
• 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

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).

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