AI Research Scientist - Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading financial services firm in Madrid is seeking an AI Research Scientist - Senior Associate to drive research in artificial intelligence. The role involves conducting impactful research, collaborating with teams, and contributing to AI publications. Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or equivalent, strong expertise in AI fields, and programming skills in Python. This opportunity promises significant contributions to cutting-edge AI advancements.

Formación

• PhD in Computer Science or related field or MS with commercial experience.
• Strong expertise in relevant specialized areas.
• Research publications in prominent AI venues.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct end-to-end research in specialized focus areas.
• Collaborate with internal and external researchers.
• Engage in all aspects of the research lifecycle.

Conocimientos

AI heuristic search

Planning

Knowledge representation

Machine learning

Python

Software engineering

Educación

PhD in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science with commercial experience

Herramientas

Java

C++

Descripción del empleo

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 AI Research Scientist - Senior Associate on the AI Research team, you will conduct end-to-end research typically within a specialized focus area and collaborate on multiple research projects with internal and external researchers and applied engineering teams. Your output will result in high-impact business applications, open-source software, patents and/or publications in AI/ML conferences and journals. The goal of J.P. Morgan AI Research is to explore and advance cutting-edge research in AI, including ML as well as related fields like Cryptography, impacting clients and businesses, with a team of experts located in New York, London, Madrid, Paris, and the Bay Area. Conducting AI research in financial services offers unique and exciting opportunities for impact to both J.P. Morgan and the broader AI community.

Job responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end research typically within Agents, Reasoning (including AI heuristic search, planning, scheduling, constraint reasoning), Knowledge representation and Learning
• Collaborate with internal and external researchers and with applied engineering teams
• Engage in all aspects of the research lifecycle such as formulating problems, gathering data, generating hypotheses, developing models and algorithms, conducting experiments, synthesizing results, building prototype applications 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• PhD in Computer Science or related field or a MS in Computer Science or related field with commercial experience in the field
• Research publications in prominent AI venues; e.g., conferences, journals
• Strong expertise in one or more specialized areas of relevance e.g., heuristic search, planning, agent-based architectures, hybrid systems, knowledge representation, ...
• Proficiency with rapid prototyping and disciplined software development processes
• Expertise in software engineering within collaborative project settings

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise in synthetic data, generative AI, protecting our customers clients and institutional knowledge (e.g., differential privacy, machine unlearning, membership/reconstruction attacks), LLM alignment and behavior modeling using RL, bandit techniques, watermarking. time-series reasoning and foundational models)
• Extensive programming skills in Python (required), Java or C++
• Interest in problems related to the financial services domain

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.