Sr. Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer

What you'll do in the role:
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.

The Ideal Candidate:
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
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree
At least 10 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
At least 7 years of experience programming in C, C++, Python, or Scala
At least 4 years of experience with the full ML development lifecycle using modern technology in a business critical setting

Preferred Qualifications:
8+ years of experience deploying scalable, responsible AI solutions on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure); Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a relevant technical field.
5+ years of proven expertise in designing, implementing and scaling personalization platform and recommendation systems serving one or more areas of Feed Personalization/Ads Ranking/Targeted Marketing Messaging.
5+ years of strong proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Golang; hands-on experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and orchestration tools (Databricks, Airflow, Kubeflow).
5+ years of experience developing and applying state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training and inference systems to improve hardware utilization, latency, throughput, and cost.
5+ years of deep expertise in cloud-native engineering, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and automated CI/CD deployment.
Passion for staying on top of the latest AI research and AI systems, and judiciously apply novel techniques in production
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI concepts to peers
Proven leadership in driving platform strategy, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and influencing technical direction across the company.