Applied AIML - Director

As an Applied AI/GenAI ML Director within the Asset and Wealth Management Technology Team at JPMorgan Chase, you will provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will leverage your deep expertise to consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead the strategic development behind new and existing products and technology portfolios, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. This role will focus on establishing and nurturing common capabilities, best practices, and reusable frameworks, creating a foundation for AI excellence that accelerates innovation and consistency across business functions.

Job responsibilities:

• Establish and promote a library of common ML assets, including reusable ML models, features stores, data pipelines, and standardized templates.
• Lead efforts to create shared tools and platforms that streamline the end-to-end ML lifecycle across the organization.
• Create curative solutions using GenAI workflows through advanced proficiency in large language models (LLMs) and related techniques.
• Gain Experience with creating a Generative AI evaluation and feedback loop for GenAI/ML pipelines
• Advise on the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies.
• Lead advisor on the technical feasibility and business need for AIML use cases.
• Liaise with firm wide AI ML stakeholders.
• Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm's innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well informed decisions about technology advancements.
• Influence across business, product and technology teams and successfully manages senior stakeholder relationships.
• champion the firm's culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on Machine Learning concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• MS and/or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• At least 10 years’ experience in one of the programming languages like Python, Java, C/C++, etc. Intermediate Python is a must.
• Solid understanding of using ML techniques specially in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Hands-on experience with machine learning and deep learning methods.
• Get Hands on code and design to bring the experimental results into production solutions by collaborating with engineering team.
• Good understanding in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. Experience in advanced applied ML areas such as GPU optimization, finetuning, embedding models, inferencing, prompt engineering, evaluation, RAG (Similarity Search).
• Ability to work on system design from ideation through completion with limited supervision.
• Passion for detail and follow through. Excellent communication skills and team player
• Demonstrated leadership in working effectively with engineers, product managers, and other ML practitioners.
• Practical cloud native experience such as AWS needed.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with Ray, MLFlow, and/or other distributed training frameworks.
• In-depth understanding of Embedding based Search/Ranking, Recommender systems, Graph techniques, and other advanced methodologies.
• Advanced knowledge in Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning.
• Deep understanding of Large Language Model (LLM) techniques, including Agents, Planning, Reasoning, and other related methods.
• Experience with building and deploying ML models on cloud platforms such as AWS and AWS tools like Sagemaker, EKS, etc.