Applied AI/ML Lead (VP) — AI Engineering & Automation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks an Applied AI / ML Lead – VP to drive end-to-end ML engineering across the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will fuse cutting-edge AI with JPM's data assets to optimize decisions and automate processes, advancing AI research in financial services.

You will lead the design of ML services, collaborate with Cloud/SRE, and contribute to scalable production architectures while balancing research and engineering priorities.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience in an ML engineering role.
• Masters or PhD in a quantitative field.
• Track record of developing, deploying business critical ML models.
• Broad knowledge of MLOps tooling – for versioning, reproducibility, observability etc.
• Experience monitoring, maintaining, enhancing existing models over an extended time period.
• Specialism in NLP or Computer Vision.
• Solid understanding of statistics, optimization and ML theory; transformers/CNNs.
• Extensive experience with PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas.
• Hands‑on experience implementing distributed/multi-threaded/scalable applications (Ray, Horovod, DeepSpeed).
• Able to communicate technical information and ideas at all levels; build trust with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build robust Data Science capabilities which can be scaled across multiple business use cases.
• Collaborate with software engineering team to design and deploy Machine Learning services that can be integrated with strategic systems.
• Research and analyse data sets using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Communicate AI capabilities and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Document approaches taken, techniques used and processes followed to comply with industry regulation.
• Collaborate with cloud and SRE teams while taking a leading role in the design and delivery of production architectures for our solutions.

Skills

ML engineering

PyTorch

NumPy

Pandas

NLP

Computer Vision

MLOps tooling

Distributed systems

Communication

Transformers

Education

Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline

Tools

Kubeflow

Ray

Horovod

DeepSpeed

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeks an Applied AI / ML Lead – VP to drive end-to-end ML engineering across the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will fuse cutting-edge AI with JPM's data assets to optimize decisions and automate processes, advancing AI research in financial services.

You will lead the design of ML services, collaborate with Cloud/SRE, and contribute to scalable production architectures while balancing research and engineering priorities.