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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

As a Capital One Lead Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), you'll be part of an Agile team dedicated to productionizing Generative AI and advanced agentic systems at scale. You’ll lead the detailed technical design, development, and implementation of core agentic architectures and multi-agent workflows using emerging technologies. You’ll focus on system-level architectural design, develop and review complex models and application code, and ensure the high availability, performance, and security of our generative AI applications. You'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and apply the latest innovations and best practices in generative and agentic machine learning engineering.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Architect Agentic Platforms: Design, develop, and scale core agentic engines and multi-agent workflow solutions, enabling seamless composition of conversational and business automation workflows.

• Drive AI Evaluation & Trust: Build and integrate scalable evaluation (Evals) and observability frameworks into solutions to ensure model predictability, performance monitoring, and mitigation of model risk.

• Deliver High-Impact Use Cases: Partner with cross-functional product and business teams to deploy production AI solutions, including next-generation consumer AI experiences, intelligent recommendation engines, and advanced conversational assistants.

• Enforce Enterprise Guardrails: Ensure all AI/ML applications strictly adhere to robust data privacy standards, regulatory postures, and framework auditability/explainability.

• Translate Practical Research: Stay abreast of practical advancements in LLM optimization, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent design patterns, judiciously applying these novel techniques to production systems.

• Technical Leadership & Code Excellence: Provide technical direction, architectural oversight, and rigorous code reviews for engineering teams, fostering a culture of modern engineering excellence.

Basic Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field

• 3+ years of experience with GenAI frameworks (., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex) and Vector Databases

• 3 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) or GenAI orchestration systems in production

• 2+ years of experience building automated evaluations (Evals) and observability pipelines for LLMs

• 3+ years of on-the-job experience with an industry-recognized ML framework such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow

• Experience deploying AI solutions within a strictly regulated environment, incorporating data privacy and model risk governance

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture design and provide deep technical guidance to engineering teams

• Experience developing and deploying ML solutions in a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

• ML industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open-source contributions, or patents

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Plano, TX: $179,400 - $204,700 for Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please.