NLP AI Research Scientist - Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Greater London is seeking an AI Research Scientist - Senior Associate to drive research initiatives in Natural Language Processing. You will collaborate with teams to develop high-impact solutions that leverage machine learning technologies, contributing to patents and publications. Ideal candidates hold a PhD or equivalent and have a strong background in AI research. This role offers opportunities to engage in the dynamic intersection of finance and AI.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related field or a MS with industry experience.
• Research publications in prominent NLP venues.
• Strong expertise in LLM-based reasoning and multimodal document analytics.
• Experience in NLP/ML platforms.
• Expertise in software engineering within collaborative settings.

Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end research in Natural Language Processing.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineering teams.
• Engage in all aspects of the research lifecycle.
• Produce outputs for high-impact business applications.
• Participate in top-tier academic conferences.

Skills

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Machine Learning (ML)

Software Engineering

Tensorflow/Keras

PyTorch

Rapid Prototyping

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

MS with industry experience

Tools

AWS

Hugging Face

Job description

Job Description

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 Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• 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 with industry experience in the field
• Research publications in prominent NLP venues; e.g., conferences, journals
• Strong expertise in one or more specialized areas of relevance e.g., LLM-based reasoning, foundational models, multimodal document analytics, knowledge representation, natural language processing and understanding
• Experience in NLP/ML platforms such as Tensorflow/Keras, PyTorch, AWS, Hugging Face, etc.
• Proficiency with rapid prototyping and disciplined software development processes
• Expertise in software engineering within collaborative project settings

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Extensive programming skills in Python, Java or C++
• Interest in problems related to the financial services domain (specific past experience in the domain is not required)

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.