AIML Research Lead - Production-Grade LLMs & Multimodal

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an AI Research Engineer - Vice President to drive applied research in LLM evaluation, fine-tuning, and multimodal capabilities within the IPB AIML team. You will translate research into shipped production features, collaborating with engineers and product teams.

This VP role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and focuses on cost, data residency, and scalable AI solutions aligned with private banking needs.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on experience evaluating, fine-tuning, and deploying Large Language Models.
• Strong grounding in experimental design, evaluation, and benchmarking of ML systems.
• Ability to bridge research and engineering: prototypes that become production-ready capabilities.
• Awareness of inference cost, performance, and optimisation techniques.
• Strong communication skills, including translating research into business and engineering terms.
• Published in a top-tier AIML venue or equivalent open-source contributions in LLMs or efficient inference.

Responsibilities

• Leads applied research into open-source LLM evaluation and deployment for cost, sovereignty, and data-residency optionality.
• Runs fine-tuning work for tone, lexicon, and domain-specific tasks that are currently brittle in prompts.
• Investigates inference efficiency and tokenomics: cost-per-output, model routing, and optimisation of production inference.
• Prototypes voice and image/multimodal capabilities to underpin future user-facing experiences.
• Designs rigorous evaluation methodologies and benchmarks so research findings are measurable and reproducible.
• Partners with AI and platform engineers to productionise research outputs connected to real platforms or products.
• Publishes internal findings and elevates the team's capability through knowledge-sharing; acts as a recruiting and thought-leadership magnet.
• Champions JPMorgan Chase culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Python & ML stack

LLMs evaluation & deployment

Experimental design & benchmarking

Research-to-production bridging

Inference cost optimization

Technical communication

AIML publishing

Education

MSc or PhD in ML/CS

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an AI Research Engineer - Vice President to drive applied research in LLM evaluation, fine-tuning, and multimodal capabilities within the IPB AIML team. You will translate research into shipped production features, collaborating with engineers and product teams.

This VP role reports to the Head of AI, IPB Tech and focuses on cost, data residency, and scalable AI solutions aligned with private banking needs.