Senior Applied AI Research Scientist: LLM & Agentic

JPMorganChase; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking an Applied AI Research Scientist – Sr. Associate to advance the LLM stack within the GTAR center. You will drive applied research, train and deploy foundation models, and collaborate with teammates to solve real business challenges.

You will document findings for publications and internal use, protect intellectual property, and present results to stakeholders and at conferences. Strong PhD or Master’s with several years of research and software experience, plus

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in computer science or related field or Master’s with equivalent applied research and engineering experience +4 years in industry.
• Ability to build and ship AI/ML systems, ideally involving LLMs.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Hands‑on experience across the LLM lifecycle including fine-tuning, prompting, serving, and evaluation.
• Experience in scientific technical writing.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present findings to a non-technical audience.
• Experience in model training and adaptation (e.g., supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, preference optimization, distillation).
• Experience in inference and serving (e.g., test-time compute, quantization, KV-cache).
• Experience in agentic systems (planning, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation).
• Experience in evaluation and faithfulness (benchmarks, hallucination detection).
• Experience in explainability and reliability (attribution, drift monitoring).

Responsibilities

• Advance applied research across the LLM stack, including model training and inference.
• Design, build, and release foundation-model and agentic systems for production workflows.
• Develop methods to evaluate, verify, and monitor models and agents.
• Enhance capabilities in explainability, reliability, and interpretability.
• Collaborate with researchers to document findings in papers and presentations.
• Contribute to intellectual property by protecting generated IP.
• Work with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into business processes.
• Present research outcomes to stakeholders and at industry conferences.
• Stay current with AI/ML advancements.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team.

Skills

Communication skills

Technical writing

LLM experience

Research collaboration

Education

Ph.D. in computer science or related field

Master's with applied research + 4+ years

Tools

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking an Applied AI Research Scientist – Sr. Associate to advance the LLM stack within the GTAR center. You will drive applied research, train and deploy foundation models, and collaborate with teammates to solve real business challenges.

You will document findings for publications and internal use, protect intellectual property, and present results to stakeholders and at conferences. Strong PhD or Master’s with several years of research and software experience, plus