AI Research Scientist-Sr. Associate

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey, ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company’s data, and leveraging data to generate insights that drive decision‑making. The CDAO also develops and implements solutions that support commercial goals using artificial intelligence and machine learning to create new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management responsibly.

As an AI Research Scientist – Senior Associate on the AI Research team, you will conduct end‑to‑end research within a specialized focus area and collaborate on multiple projects with internal and external researchers and applied engineering teams. Your output will lead to high‑impact business applications, open‑source software, patents, and publications in top AI/ML conferences and journals. The team is located in New York, London, Madrid, Paris, and the Bay Area.

• Conduct end‑to‑end research within Agents, Reasoning (including AI heuristic search, planning, scheduling, constraint reasoning), Knowledge representation, and Learning.
• Collaborate with internal and external researchers and applied engineering teams.
• Engage in all aspects of the research lifecycle: problem formulation, data gathering, hypothesis generation, model and algorithm development, experimentation, result synthesis, prototype application building, and communicating the significance of your research.
• Produce outputs that lead to high‑impact business applications, open‑source software, patents, and/or publications in top AI/ML conferences and journals.
• Participate in relevant top‑tier academic conferences to broaden the impact of your contributions.

• PhD in Computer Science or a related field or an MS in Computer Science or a related field with at least 3 years of experience.
• Research publications in prominent AI venues (conferences, journals).
• Expertise in one or more specialized areas relevant to the role, such as heuristic search, planning, agent‑based architectures, hybrid systems, or knowledge representation.
• Strong expertise in synthetic data, generative AI, differential privacy, uncertainty quantification, LLM alignment and behavior modeling using RL, bandit techniques, watermarking, time‑series, reasoning, and foundational models.
• Proficiency with rapid prototyping and disciplined software development processes.
• Expertise in software engineering within collaborative project settings.

• Extensive programming skills in Python (required);
  Java or C++ (optional).
• Interest in problems related to the financial services domain (specific past experience not required).

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