Applied AI/ML Director: Agentic Systems & Innovation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an Applied AI/ML Executive Director to lead cutting-edge AI/ML initiatives across NLP, speech analytics, time series, RL, and recommendations. You will collaborate with business, technologists, and control partners to deploy solutions into production, pushing research with practical impact.

The role emphasizes collaboration, experimentation, and knowledge sharing, with a strong focus on rigorous engineering and scalable systems for complex analytical problems.

Qualifications

• PhD in a quantitative field or MS with 7+ years of industry/research experience.
• Experience with ML/DL toolkits (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas).
• Ability to design experiments and metrics aligned with business goals.
• Strong written and spoken communication for technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced agentic AI solutions with structured/unstructured data, casual analytics, ML/DL, RL, and optimization.
• Design architectures blending LLM reasoning with tools, data, and APIs across state, memory, and context management.
• Engineer reliable agent-driven workflows with guardrails, approvals, and auditable decision paths.
• Build knowledge-centric reasoning layers including knowledge graphs and hybrid retrieval (RAG + graph + structured sources).
• Drive specification-driven development: write specs/contracts and build evaluation/regression harnesses.
• Advance agent quality via self-improvement loops, red-team feedback, and prompt optimization.
• Coach and mentor AI/ML team members, upholding engineering rigor and research depth.

Skills

Machine learning

Deep learning

Experiment design

Communication

Education

PhD in a quantitative discipline

MS with 7+ years industry/research experience

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

NumPy

Scikit-Learn

Pandas

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an Applied AI/ML Executive Director to lead cutting-edge AI/ML initiatives across NLP, speech analytics, time series, RL, and recommendations. You will collaborate with business, technologists, and control partners to deploy solutions into production, pushing research with practical impact.

The role emphasizes collaboration, experimentation, and knowledge sharing, with a strong focus on rigorous engineering and scalable systems for complex analytical problems.