Machine Learning Scientist – Natural Language Processing; NLP – Sr. Associate – Machine Learni

Machine Learning Scientist – Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Sr. Associate – Machine Learning Center of Excellence

Seattle, WA, United States and 2 more

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company’s data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision‑making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm’s commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.

As a Machine Learning Scientist – Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Senior Associate in the Machine Learning Center of Excellence, you will apply sophisticated machine learning methods to complex tasks including natural language processing, speech analytics, time series, reinforcement learning and recommendation systems. You will collaborate with various teams and actively participate in the knowledge sharing community. You should excel in working in a highly collaborative environment together with the business, technologists and control partners to deploy solutions into production.

You should also have a strong passion for machine learning and invest independent time towards learning, researching and experimenting with new innovations in the field. You should have solid expertise in Deep Learning with hands‑on implementation experience and possess strong analytical thinking, a deep desire to learn and be highly motivated.

• Research and explore new machine learning methods through independent study, attending industry‑leading conferences, experimentation and participating in our knowledge sharing community
• Develop state‑of‑the‑art machine learning models to solve real‑world problems and apply them to tasks such as NLP, speech recognition and analytics, time‑series predictions or recommendation systems
• Collaborate with multiple partner teams such as Business, Technology, Product Management, Legal, Compliance, Strategy and Business Management to deploy solutions into production
• Drive firm‑wide initiatives by developing large‑scale frameworks to accelerate the application of machine learning models across different areas of the business

• PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization, or Data Science or an MS with at least 3 years of industry or research experience in the field.
• Solid background in NLP or speech recognition and analytics, personalization/recommendation and hands‑on experience and solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning methods
• Extensive experience with machine learning and deep learning toolkits (e.g.: Tensor Flow, PyTorch, Num Py, Scikit‑Learn, Pandas)
• Ability to design experiments and training frameworks, and to outline and evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics for model performance aligned with business goals
• Experience with big data and scalable model training and solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.
• Scientific thinking with the ability to invent and to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environments
• Solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences. Curious, hardworking and detail‑oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems

• Strong background in Mathematics and Statistics and familiarity with the financial services industries and continuous integration models and unit test development
• Knowledge in search/ranking, Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning
• Experience with A/B experimentation and data/metric‑driven product development, cloud‑native deployment in a large‑scale distributed environment and ability to…