Capital One
Machine Learning Engineer 4
$179K–$225K
McLean, VA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Cambridge, MA
Richmond, VA - Experience
- 4+ years in programming and ML/distributed systems; 2+ years deploying and operating production ML and cloud services.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related quantitative field; preferred Master's or Doctoral Degree in a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer immigration-related support for this position.
About the job
Build, deploy, and operate production machine learning models and infrastructure to solve business problems and scale AI applications.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, retrain, maintain, and monitor ML models and components in production.
- Develop cloud-based ML systems and optimized data pipelines; apply CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Agile teams while ensuring models are well-governed and follow Responsible and Explainable AI practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 4 years programming with Python, Java, Golang, or C++.
- At least 4 years of ML experience with PyTorch or Tensorflow and libraries including Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn; at least 4 years operating distributed systems such as Spark or Ray for AI/ML data.
- At least 2 years deploying and operating production ML solutions and cloud services (AWS, GCP, or Azure), using Kubernetes for large-scale containerized ML systems.
Nice to have
- Master's or Doctoral Degree in a related field; experience optimizing ML algorithms, configurations, and infrastructure.
- Experience with software development best practices, resilient production systems, ML methods and architectures, production data pipelines, or technical leadership; authored or co-authored an ML paper.
Pay
$197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary (Cambridge, MA); $197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $179,400 - $204,700 USD base salary (Richmond, VA)
Tools
Python, Java, Golang, C++, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Pandas, NumPy
AI focus
Build and scale production ML models; optimize, deploy, retrain, and monitor them, with attention to responsible and explainable AI.
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