Description

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 an Applied AI ML Senior Associate in Machine Learning Center of Excellence, you will have the opportunity to apply sophisticated machine learning methods to complex tasks including time series analysis, reinforcement learning, causal inference, and natural language processing. You will collaborate with various teams and actively participate in our knowledge sharing community. We are looking for someone who excels in a highly collaborative environment, working together with our business, technologists and control partners to deploy solutions into production. If you have a strong passion for machine learning and enjoy investing time towards learning, researching and experimenting with new innovations in the field, this role is for you. We value solid expertise in Machine Learning and Econometrics with hands-on implementation experience, strong analytical thinking, a deep desire to learn and high motivation.

Job responsibilities

• 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 it to tasks such as time-series analysis and modelling, constrained optimization and prediction for large systems, prescriptive analytics, and decision-making in dynamical 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Econometrics, Finance/Accounting, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research
• Ability to conduct literature research in unfamiliar fields
• Hands-on experience and solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning methods
• Extensive experience with machine learning and deep learning toolkits (e.g.: TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong background in Mathematics and Statistics and familiarity with the financial services industries;
• Solid knowledge in financial reports analysis; understand relationships among items in Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cashflow statement
• Ability to develop and debug production-quality code and solid experience in writing unit tests, integration tests, and regression tests;
• Published research in areas of Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Reinforcement Learning OR Finance/Accounting at a major conference or journal

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. 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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.