Applied AI ML - Sr. Associate - Machine Learning Scientist

As an Applied AI ML - Sr. Associate - Machine Learning Scientist in the JPMorgan Corporate Investment Bank, you will be part of our industry-leading team, combining cutting-edge AI techniques with the company's unique data assets to optimize business decisions and automate processes. You will have the opportunity to advance the state-of-the-art in AI as applied to financial services, leveraging the latest research from fields of Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and statistical machine learning to build products that automate processes, help experts prioritize their time, and make better decisions.

Our scientists take the lead in translating business requirements into machine learning problems and ensure through ongoing literature review that our solutions leverage the most appropriate algorithms.

The role is initially that of an individual contributor, though there will be optional opportunity for management responsibility dependent on the candidate’s experience.

Focus on rapidly delivering business value with our Applied AI ML solutions.

Collaborate closely with ML engineers throughout the entire product lifecycle to ensure that experimental results are reproducible and we’re able to rapidly promote from “Proof of Concept” to production

• Hands on experience in a commercial/ Postdoctoral Research role
• PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
• Able to understand business objectives and align ML problem definition
• Track record of solving real world problems with AI
• Deep specialism in NLP or Computer Vision
• Deep understanding of fundamentals of statistics, optimization and ML theory
• Extensive experience with pytorch, numpy, pandas
• Hands on experience fine tuning modern deep learning architectures (transformers, CNN, autoencoders etc.)
• Knowledge of open source datasets and benchmarks in NLP or Computer Vision
• Able to communicate technical information and ideas at all levels; convey information clearly and create trust with stakeholders
• Experience working collaboratively within a team to build software.

• Experience pretraining foundation models (LLM / vision/ multimodal)
• Experience of documenting solutions for enterprise risk/ governance purposes
• Experience designing/ implementing pipelines using DAGs (e.g. Kubeflow, DVC, Ray)
• Hands-on experience in implementing distributed/multi-threaded/scalable applications (incl. frameworks such as Ray, Horovod, Deep Speed, etc.)
• Experience of big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop)
• Broad knowledge of MLOps tooling for versioning, reproducibility, observability etc.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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