Sr. Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer (Remote-Eligible)

Define and drive technical strategy and roadmap for our Personalization Platform that powers real-time, personalized product experiences and multi-channel targeted user messaging across all Capital One products and services.

Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data science, Cloud infrastructure, and Machine learning platform teams to align on and co-develop the advanced recommendation systems and algorithms serving our Capital One users.

Develop and maintain a flexible, scalable rules engine to enable business-driven personalization logic, allowing dynamic configuration of user segmentation, targeting rules, and real-time decisioning while integrating seamlessly with ML-driven recommendations.

Design, build and maintain robust ML infrastructure and pipelines to support end-to-end workflows including feature extraction, model training, testing, guardrails, model evaluation, deployment, and both real-time and batch inference - ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.

Architect low-latency, event-driven systems for enabling real-time dynamic personalization and decisioning based on streaming data, user behavior, and contextual signals.

Drive the evolution of MLOps practices by building automated metrics-backed deployment workflows, integration validation and testing systems, and scalable monitoring & observability.

Invent and introduce state-of-the-art LLM optimization techniques to improve the performance — scalability, cost, latency, throughput — of large scale production AI systems.

Leverage a broad stack of Open Source and SaaS AI technologies such as AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, and more.

Provide organizational technical leadership to influence architecture, engineering standards, cross-team strategies, mentoring engineers and driving organization wide platform innovation.

You love to build systems, take pride in the quality of your work, and also share our passion to do the right thing. You want to work on problems that will help change banking for good.

Passion for staying abreast of the latest research, and an ability to intuitively understand scientific publications and judiciously apply novel techniques in production.

You adapt quickly and thrive on bringing clarity to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and digging deep to uncover the root of problems and can articulate your findings concisely with clarity. You have the courage to share new ideas even when they are unproven.

You are deeply Technical. You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics, and your expertise in hardware, software, and AI enable you to see and exploit optimization opportunities that others miss.

You are a resilient trail blazer who can forge new paths to achieve business goals when the route is unknown.

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity

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.

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.

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