Applied AI ML Director - NLP / LLM and Graphs

Job Responsibilities

• Create state of the art machine learning models to solve real world problems and apply them to 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.
• Research and explore new machine learning methods through independent study, attending industry leading conferences, experimentation and participation in knowledge sharing community.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• PhD in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization, or Data Science) or an MS with significant industry or research experience.
• Solid background in NLP, LLM, and graph analytics plus hands on experience and solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning methods.
• Hands on experience building agentic AI / multi agent systems within regulated or compliance driven environments.
• Ability to design experiments and training frameworks, outline and evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics for model performance aligned with business goals, focusing on agentic systems and LLM evaluation.
• 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 ability to invent and work independently and in highly collaborative teams.
• Motivated by complex analytical problems; curious, hardworking, detail oriented.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Strong background in Mathematics and Statistics and familiarity with financial services industry and continuous integration models and unit test development.
• Knowledge of graph integration with LLM, 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 develop and debug production quality code.
• Published research in machine learning, deep learning or reinforcement learning at a major conference or journal.

About the Job

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm's data and analytics journey. The Applied AI ML Director - NLP / LLM and Graphs role will apply sophisticated machine learning methods to complex tasks including natural language processing, graph analytics, speech analytics, time series, reinforcement learning and recommendation systems, and collaborate with various teams.

We value solid expertise in deep learning with hands on implementation experience, strong analytical thinking, a deep desire to learn and high motivation.

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