Capital One
Machine Learning Engineer 5 (Senior Manager, IC)
$209K–$262K
McLean, VA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
Richmond, VA - Experience
- At least 6 years in programming, ML, and large-scale distributed systems; at least 4 years deploying and operating production ML and cloud services. Preferred experience includes 5+ years in several listed areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Build and operate production machine-learning models, platforms, and data pipelines for risk-management products, applying AI at scale.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, retrain, and monitor ML models and components with Product and Data Science teams.
- Build and scale distributed ML platforms, cloud services, and data pipelines for model training and serving.
- Write and test application code; automate deployment and monitoring while following responsible, explainable AI and model-governance practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 6 years programming with Python, Java, Golang, or C++.
- At least 6 years of ML experience using PyTorch or Tensorflow and libraries including Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn; and at least 6 years using distributed systems such as Spark or Ray to prepare AI/ML data.
- At least 4 years deploying and operating production ML solutions and cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), including Kubernetes for large-scale containerized ML systems.
Nice to have
- Master's or doctoral degree in a related field; 5+ years optimizing ML algorithms, configurations, and infrastructure.
- 5+ years with software development best practices, resilient production deployments, ML techniques and evaluation, or production data pipelines; ML industry contributions are also valued.
Pay
McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 USD base salary; Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Golang, C++, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Pandas, NumPy
AI focus
Develop and scale AI/ML solutions for risk management, including production model training and serving, monitoring, and responsible and explainable AI.
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