AI Research Senior Associate - Agents

JPMorganChase; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking an AI Research Senior Associate to advance cutting-edge AI research. The role involves collaborating with experts, formulating complex problems, and contributing to high-impact publications and applications. Ideal candidates should have a PhD in relevant fields and programming skills in Python, with a strong foundation in AI and machine learning techniques.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related fields.
• Curiosity, creativity, resourcefulness, and a collaborative spirit.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on multiple research projects in collaboration with teams.
• Formulate problems and develop new algorithms and models.
• Contribute to publications in AI/ML conferences and journals.

Skills

Programming skills in Python

Proficient understanding of AI and ML techniques

Statistical data analysis

Effective communication skills

Curiosity and creativity

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

TensorFlow/Keras

PyTorch

Job description

Join J.P. Morgan AI Research, where you'll explore and advance cutting-edge AI research to develop impactful solutions for our clients and businesses.

As an AI Research Senior Associate in J.P. Morgan AI Research, you will work on novel techniques, tools, and frameworks to model and solve complex large-scale problems, collaborating with experts in AI Agents and contributing to high-impact business applications and the broader AI community. Your role involves formulating problems, generating hypotheses, developing algorithms and models, conducting experiments, and communicating research significance. Your output will result in publications, high-impact business applications, open-source software, and patents.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work on multiple research projects in collaboration with internal and external researchers and applied engineering teams.
• Formulate problems, generate hypotheses, develop new algorithms and models, conduct experiments, synthesize results, gather data, build prototypes, and communicate research significance.
• Contribute to publications in AI/ML conferences and journals, high-impact business applications, open-source software, and patents.
• Participate in relevant top-tier academic conferences, organize workshops, and engage with the AI research community to broaden the impact of your contributions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related fields.
• Programming skills in Python.
• Proficient understanding of fundamental AI and ML techniques (e.g., A*, regularization).
• Practical experience with statistical data analysis and experimental design.
• Curiosity, creativity, resourcefulness, and a collaborative spirit.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with technical and business audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work on multi-disciplinary teams with diverse backgrounds.
• Interest in problems related to the financial services domain.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Research publications in prominent AI/ML or Software Engineering venues (e.g., conferences, journals).
• Strong expertise in specialized areas such as deep learning (DL) or AI Agents.
• Practical experience with ML platforms such as TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch.
• Comfort with rapid prototyping and disciplined software development processes.
• Practical software engineering experience in collaborative project settings.
• Hands-on experience developing and using AI Agents in a professional setting.

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.