AI/ML Software Engineer III

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is looking for a Software Engineer III to join its Client Onboarding and KYC Engineering team. In this role, you will develop AI/ML applications and solutions using Python, Spark, and AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, experience in statistical inference, and a solid understanding of AI/ML concepts. This position offers career advancement opportunities and a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on AI/ML concepts.
• Proven experience post-advanced degree in a quantitative field.
• Data wrangling with Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end solutions in AI.
• Execute tasks throughout the model development process.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

Python programming

Statistical inference

Data wrangling

Machine Learning projects

NLP techniques

Excellent problem-solving skills

Education

MS or PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

Python libraries (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn)

OpenAI API

SQL (Oracle, Aurora)

Job description

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity within the Client Onboarding & Know Your Customer technology group, to help implement our next generation data strategy and take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Client Onboarding and KYC Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to explore intricate business problems and apply advanced algorithms to develop, test, and evaluate AI/ML applications or models for these challenges. You will leverage the firm's extensive data resources from both internal and external sources using Python, Spark, and AWS, among other systems. You are expected to extract business insights from technical results and effectively communicate them to a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end to end solutions in AI domain, from Pattern matching, Chatbot implementation, and using GenAI.
• Proactively develop an understanding of key business problems and processes.
• Execute tasks throughout the model development process, including data wrangling/analysis, model training, testing, and selection.
• Generate structured and meaningful insights from data analysis and modelling exercises and present them in an appropriate format according to the audience.
• Collaborate with other data scientists and machine learning engineers to deploy machine learning solutions.
• Conduct ad-hoc and periodic analysis as required by business stakeholders, the model risk function, and other groups.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on AI/ML concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Proven experience post-advanced degree (MS, PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics).
• Experience in statistical inference and experimental design (such as probability, linear algebra, calculus).
• Data wrangling: understanding complex datasets, cleaning, reshaping, and joining messy datasets using Python.
• Practical expertise and work experience with ML projects, both supervised and unsupervised.
• Proficient programming skills with Python, including libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn, as well as R.
• Understanding and usage of the OpenAI API.
• NLP: tokenization, embeddings, sentiment analysis, basic transformers for text-heavy datasets.
• Experience with LLM & Prompt Engineering, including tools like LangChain, LangGraph, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Experience in anomaly detection techniques, algorithms, and applications.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication (verbal and written), and teamwork skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with big data frameworks, with a preference for Databricks.
• Experience with databases, including SQL (Oracle, Aurora), and Vector DB.
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Bitbucket and GitHub.
• Experience with graph analytics and neural networks.
• Experience working with engineering teams to operationalize machine learning models.

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.