Artificial Intelligence Research Director - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase AI Research is seeking an Executive Director / Research Director to advance novel AI techniques and deliver scalable solutions in collaboration with engineering and product teams.

The role requires leading research directions, mentoring researchers, publishing results, and translating ideas into production-grade components that support multiple businesses in a financial services context.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with relevant AI/ML research and 4+ years of experience.
• Publications in top AI/ML venues (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR) or related conferences.
• Strong communication to technical and business audiences.
• Hands-on Python development with tests in collaborative projects.
• Experience leading AI researchers and partnering with engineering and business stakeholders.
• Translate research into production-ready solutions and reusable components.
• Deep expertise in multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning.
• Hands-on engagement with design, evaluation, and code in a team setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple AI research projects with internal data scientists and engineers across businesses.
• Formulate problems, develop algorithms, run experiments, and publish results.
• Contribute to high-impact business applications and reusable assets.
• Provide thought leadership through white papers, publications, and presentations.
• Own portfolio directions and drive strategic engagement with stakeholders.

Skills

AI/ML research

Publications

Python

Mentoring

Multi-agent systems

Reinforcement learning

Production-ready solutions

Leadership

Education

PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Google ADK

LangGraph

A2A

Job description

JPMorganChase AI Research is a global team of research scientists, engineers and product managers that develops novel AI capabilities and partners across the firm to translate breakthrough AI/ML techniques into deployed solutions. The team brings together researchers across multi-agent systems, foundation model training, reinforcement and continual learning, multimodal document AI, formal reasoning, planning and verification, and synthetic data generation - alongside experts in trustworthy AI, privacy, and cryptography - to solve hard problems end-to-end in ways that are secure, reliable, and scalable in financial services.

AI Research sits within the Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorganChase which is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the firm'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 Executive Director / Research Director in AI Research, you will work on developing novel techniques, tools, and frameworks to model and solve complex large-scale problems in the bank. You will develop a close understanding of the challenges in practical applications of AI and leverage that understanding to formulate new research directions and solutions that can shift the frontier. Your work will span from early-stage innovation and rigorous evaluation to production-scale delivery in close collaboration with engineering and product teams.

Job responsibilities

• Work on multiple commercially oriented research projects in collaboration with internal data scientists, applied engineering teams and stakeholders across businesses e.g. Commercial & Investment Banking (including Markets), Asset & Wealth Management, Consumer & Community Banking, etc.
• Formulate problems, generate hypotheses, develop new algorithms and models, conduct experiments and rigorous evaluations, synthesize and communicate results, and deliver well-tested, high-quality code.
• Contribute to high-impact business applications, reusable assets and products, and research initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on internal and external forums through white papers, publications and presentations.
• Own a portfolio of capabilities, drive strategic directions and prioritization within the portfolio including business stakeholder engagement, development of relevant reusable capabilities or products, and initiation of new research initiatives that can drive business impact.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields with relevant research experience in AI/ML and 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Research publications in top-tier AI/ML venues (e.g., conferences, journals) – broad conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc., or highly regarded specialized conferences such as ICAPS, CRYPTO, etc.
• Deep understanding of fundamental AI/ML techniques and a strong grasp of current state of the art in specific areas of expertise
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to address both technical and business audiences.
• Practical software development experience in collaborative project settings such as open-source projects or industry experience. Ability to deliver modular, optimized, high-quality Python code with tests.
• Experience leading and mentoring AI researchers, partnering with engineering and business stakeholders to drive execution and strategic planning across near-term deliveries and longer-horizon research initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to translate research into real-world impact e.g., production-ready solutions, prototypes/pilots, reusable components, reference architectures, or standards.
• Ideal candidate enjoys being hands-on and deeply involved with the team in vetting design, solution approaches, results and code.
• Deep research expertise in multi-agent systems and reinforcement learning including agent co-ordination, negotiation, communication, simulations and mechanism design.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying multi-agent solutions with frameworks such as Google ADK, LangGraph, A2A, etc. Strong understanding of technical architectures, design and tradeoffs.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical experience with ML/RL libraries (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, HuggingFace Transformers etc.), familiarity with common formal verification tools and languages (e.g., Coq/Isabelle/Lean, TLA+, Alloy, Z3, PDDL)