Senior Applied AI/ML Lead for Wholesale Payments

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking an Applied AI/ML Lead for Wholesale Payments Operations. You will build and deploy enterprise AI/ML solutions on AWS, mentor engineers, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to frame problems and plan roadmaps.

The role focuses on scalable AI/ML capabilities for payments operations, including document processing and workflow automation, with governance and risk considerations integral to delivery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional AI/ML experience delivering production systems.
• 4+ years Python development in production with AI-assisted tooling.
• 4+ years deploying production ML on AWS.
• Proven track record delivering AI/ML at scale with measurable outcomes.
• Experience with distributed systems, object-oriented design, and performance engineering.
• Experience deploying LLM-based apps including retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning.
• Hands-on NLP, OCR, or document AI in production.
• Experience implementing MLOps using MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, or feature stores.

Responsibilities

• Frame problems with senior stakeholders and align AI roadmaps.
• Lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI/ML solutions.
• Write clean, production-grade code and set standards.
• Champion CI/CD and DevOps practices across the team.
• Deploy and operate AI/ML services on AWS at scale.
• Define model governance, monitoring, and responsible AI practices.
• Mentor engineers, conduct reviews, and support recruiting.
• Evaluate model performance and drift in production.

Skills

AI/ML leadership

Python development

Production ML systems

AWS production services

Model governance & risk

NLP/OCR/Document AI

MLOps tooling (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow

Data pipelines

Mentoring engineers

Strong stakeholder communication

Education

Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS SageMaker

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS/EKS

AWS S3

Kubeflow

MLflow

Airflow

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking an Applied AI/ML Lead for Wholesale Payments Operations. You will build and deploy enterprise AI/ML solutions on AWS, mentor engineers, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to frame problems and plan roadmaps.

The role focuses on scalable AI/ML capabilities for payments operations, including document processing and workflow automation, with governance and risk considerations integral to delivery.