Applied Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Lead - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Whitewater (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an AI Engineering Lead VP to drive hands-on development of AI/ML solutions for Asset and Wealth Management.

You will lead architecture, implement lighthouse ML/LLM projects, and deploy inference services on AWS or Azure, collaborating with global teams and senior partners. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building production-grade AI systems, strong Python skills, and a track record of delivering scalable, secure data pipelines in a financial services

Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Machine Learning and minimum 7 years of development experience, with at least 4 years on AI solutions.
• Experience using LLMs to solve business problems, including full workflow toolset such as tracing, evaluations, and guardrails.
• Strong programming skills in Python and deep knowledge in data structures, algorithms, ML, data mining, information retrieval, and statistics.
• Demonstrated ability to perform independent end-to-end solution design with focus on scalable and secure architecture.
• Knowledge of data management, data model design, and real-time processing on SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Proven leadership capacity and ability to communicate with senior technical and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with firmwide AI/ML teams, Business and Product Partners, and dispersed teams to drive alignment and accelerate adoption of AI capabilities.
• Hands-on architecture and implementation of lighthouse ML and LLM-powered solutions.
• Design and deploy scalable data processing pipelines and model inference services.
• Develop and productionize high-quality ML models, services, and platforms.
• Deploy solutions into public cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Data Structures

Algorithms

ML & AI

System design

Security

Education

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Python

OpenAI

Azure

AWS

Job description

JPMC is hiring to join the growing Asset and Wealth Management AI Engineering team. We are executing like a startup and building next-generation technology that combines JPMC unique data and full-service advantage to develop high impact AI applications and platforms in the financial services industry. We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineering lead and domain expert who is excited about the opportunity to build cutting edge business solutions powered by AI.

As a AI/ML Lead Engineer Vice President in our global AI team you will play a lead role as a seasoned member of our global AI team. Your responsibilities will entail hands-on development of high-impact business solutions through data analysis, developing cutting-edge ML and LLM models, and deploying these models to production environments on AWS or Azure.

You’ll combine your years of proven development expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. Your passion and experience in one or more technology domains will help solve complex business problems to serve our Private Bank clients. As a constant learner and early adopter, you’re already embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies; your example encourages others to follow suit.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with firmwide AI/ML teams, Business and Product Partners, peers in geographically dispersed teams, and colleagues across JPMorgan AWM’s lines of business and functions to drive alignment, accelerate adoption of common AI capabilities, and deliver impactful solutions
• Hands-on architecture and implementation of lighthouse ML and LLM-powered solutions
• Design and implement highly scalable and reliable data processing pipelines and deploy model inference services
• Experiment, develop, and productionize high-quality machine learning models, services, and platforms to make a huge technology and business impact
• Deploy solutions into public cloud infrastructure

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Machine Learning and minimum 7 years of development experience, with at least 4 years working on AI solutions.
• Experience in using LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or other models) to solve business problems, including full workflow toolset such as tracing, evaluations, and guardrails;
• Must have strong programming skills in Python and deep knowledge in Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Statistics
• Demonstrated ability to perform independent end-to-end solution design, with attention on modern architecture, scalability and security
• Knowledge of data management, including data model design, as well as real-time data processing on both SQL (such as Postgres) and NoSQL stores (such as OpenSearch and Redis)
• Proven leadership capacity, including new AI/ML idea generation and GenAI-based solutions and excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with senior technical and business partners

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience working in the financial domain with a large financial institution in Asset and Wealth Management, Brokerage, or Investment Banking will be an added advantage
• Understanding of LLM fine-tuning and small language model inference is a plus
• Ability to develop full-stack products, utilizing modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks, such as Next.js and Svelte
• Knowledge of other high-performance languages, such as Go or Rust
• Expert knowledge of one of the cloud computing platforms preferred: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Kubernetes