Senior AI/ML Scientist — Agentic AI for SMB Lending

J.P. Morgan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus eligibility

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Chase Small Business Banking seeks a Senior Associate Applied AI/ML Scientist to develop agentic AI products for Small Business Lending. You will partner with Product and Engineering to translate needs into production-ready systems, owning prompts, tools, memory, and routing for agent behavior, with evaluations showing improvements in task success, safety, and cost.

You will work with LangChain/LangGraph, fine-tune models, implement guardrails, and apply MLOps practices across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS or data science with 3+ years of industry experience.
• Strong software engineering experience contributing to production systems.
• Proficient in Python, including asynchronous programming and API development.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying generative AI/LLM apps in production.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph or similar tools.
• Experience implementing evaluations and guardrails with tools like deepeval.
• Experience using tracing/observability tools such as Arize Phoenix.
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn).
• Experience integrating vector databases and search/indexing in AI apps.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy ML and generative AI solutions for business needs.
• Develop agentic AI systems with LangChain/LangGraph or similar frameworks.
• Evaluate agent performance with gold/adversarial sets and rubrics.
• Fine-tune models for custom objectives and constraints.
• Implement and tune safety guardrails and spend limits; monitor impact.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product teams, and stakeholders.
• Apply MLOps practices including CI/CD, versioning, observability.
• Work with structured/unstructured data; support retrieval-augmented generation.

Skills

Python

Asynchronous programming

API development

Production ML

LangChain/LangGraph

Evaluation guardrails

MLOps CI/CD

RAG / vector databases

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or data science

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Arize Phoenix

deepeval

PyTorch

scikit-learn

FastAPI/Flask

Vector databases

Job description

Chase Small Business Banking seeks a Senior Associate Applied AI/ML Scientist to develop agentic AI products for Small Business Lending. You will partner with Product and Engineering to translate needs into production-ready systems, owning prompts, tools, memory, and routing for agent behavior, with evaluations showing improvements in task success, safety, and cost.

You will work with LangChain/LangGraph, fine-tune models, implement guardrails, and apply MLOps practices across the lifecycle.