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JOB DESCRIPTION
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
As an Applied AI Machine Learning Lead, you will lead the development of scalable, production-grade advanced ML solutions across natural language processing, speech recognition, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and agentic AI. You will play a key role in delivering Generative AI capabilities – designing and productionizing LLM-powered systems such as RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), tool/function-calling agents, and structured generation to automate complex workflows and improve customer experiences. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and control partners to translate ambiguous problems into measurable goals, deliver robust models, and operate them reliably in production. You bring strong deep learning and transformer-based modeling expertise, as well as hands-on experience in fine-tuning and evaluation. You must have a strong passion for machine learning, strong analytical thinking, a deep desire to learn, and high motivation. You must also invest independent time in learning, researching, and experimenting with new innovations, and contribute to a strong knowledge-sharing culture.
Job responsibilities
- Lead and deploy state-of-the-art advanced machine learning systems across NLP, speech recognition, recommendation systems, and information retrieval.
- Design and build agentic AI systems for multi‑step workflows, including tool/function calling, multi‑agent orchestration, planning, grounding, and safety guardrails.
- Use reinforcement learning (policy optimization, bandits, RLHF‑style approaches where appropriate) to improve personalization, dialog policies, and sequential decision‑making systems.
- Fine-tune and adapt LLMs/SLMs using PEFT (LoRA, AdaLoRA, IA3), distillation, and quantization; optimize for quality, latency, cost, and production constraints.
- Select and innovate on ML strategies for various banking problems.
- Analyze and evaluate the ongoing performance of developed ML systems.
- Collaborate with multiple partner teams, such as Business, Technology, Product Management, Design, Analytics, and Model Governance to deploy solutions into production.
- Build domain understanding to identify high-impact opportunities, ensure responsible AI usage, and drive measurable outcomes (customer experience, automation, accuracy, and efficiency).
- Implement privacy, safety, and security controls for GenAI systems, including PCI handling/redaction, policy checks, jailbreak resistance, and auditability.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- MS with 7+ years, or PhD with 4+ years of hand-on industry experience in building and deploying machine learning systems (NLP/Information Retrieval/Recommendation System and/or GenAI) in production environment
- Good understanding of the latest advancement of NLP concepts, such as the transformer architecture, knowledge distillation, transfer learning, and representation learning.
- Applied GenAI experience with LLMs and the ability to fine‑tune and deploy SLMs for targeted use cases, familiarity with prompt design, grounded generation, and RAG.
- Experience with scaling LLM systems (caching, batching, prompt/version governance, evaluation harnesses)
- Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modelling, including model evaluation and error analysis.
- Solid understanding of Information Retrieval concepts (indexing, ranking, dense/sparse retrieval, re-ranking) and/or recommendation systems.
- Ability to design experiments — establish strong baselines, choose meaningful metrics, and evaluate model performance rigorously
- Scientific thinking with the ability to invent and to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environments
- Proficiency in Python and common ML libraries (PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face, scikit-learn), and ability to write production-quality code.
- Ability to collaborate in cross-functional environments with product, engineering, and control partners.
- Solid written and spoken communication skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5 years of hands-on experience with virtual assistant model development and optimization
- Experience orchestrating multi‑agent teams with supervisor agents, debate/consensus mechanisms, and role‑specialized toolkits for complex enterprise tasks.
- Building agent governance and eval suites: red‑teaming, adversarial tests, safety scorecards, regression suites for prompts/tools
- Experience with RL/bandits, preference optimization, or human feedback loops for personalization.
- Experience in regulated finance domains and working with risk/control processes.
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps: CI/CD for models, monitoring/alerting, model versioning, evaluation of pipelines, and rollback strategies.
- Experience with A/B experimentation and data/metric-driven product development.
ABOUT US
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. You’ll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.
Salary Context
This $164K-$260K range is above the median for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $170K across 217 roles with salary data).
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About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 37,339 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 91% of the market. At JPMorganChase, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $154,000 based on 8,743 positions with disclosed compensation. This role's midpoint ($212K) sits 38% above the category median. Disclosed range: $164K to $260K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $190,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $300,688. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Engineering Manager ($293,500) and AI Safety ($274,200). By seniority level: Entry: $85,000; Mid: $147,000; Senior: $225,000; Director: $230,600; VP: $248,357.
JPMorganChase AI Hiring
JPMorganChase has 7 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, AI Product Manager. Positions span New York, NY, US, Columbus, OH, US, Palo Alto, CA, US. Compensation range: $165K - $260K.
Location Context
AI roles in New York pay a median of $204,100 across 1,633 tracked positions. That's 7% above the national median.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 37,339 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 3,672 entry-level, 23,272 mid-level, 7,048 senior, and 3,347 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 7% of the market (2,732 positions). The remaining 34,484 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $190,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $244,000. The 90th percentile reaches $300,688. Highest-paying categories: AI Engineering Manager ($293,500 median, 21 roles); AI Safety ($274,200 median, 24 roles); Research Engineer ($260,000 median, 264 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 37,339 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (33,926), AI Software Engineer (823), AI Product Manager (805). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (3,672) are outnumbered by mid-level (23,272) and senior (7,048) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 3,347 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 7% of all AI roles (2,732 positions), with 34,484 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $190,000. Top-quartile roles start at $244,000, and the 90th percentile reaches $300,688. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Engineering Manager roles lead at $293,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,600. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Rag (23,721 postings), Aws (12,486 postings), Rust (10,785 postings), Python (5,564 postings), Azure (3,616 postings), Gcp (3,032 postings), Prompt Engineering (2,112 postings), Kubernetes (1,713 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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