Applied ML and Generative AI Lead - Vice President

J.P.

Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors.

Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do.

We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

As the Applied ML and Generative Lead within J.P.Morgan, you will operate as a hands-on engineering leader responsible for designing, building, and running production-grade ML and Generative AI services, while setting technical direction that scales across multiple workstreams.

You will remain close to the code and architecture decisions, establish delivery and engineering standards, and ensure solutions meet enterprise expectations for security, stability, and operational rigor.

A core requirement is stakeholder partnership: you will routinely explain what is being built, why it matters, and how it will perform in production to both technical and non-technical audiences, enabling informed decisions and clear delivery alignment.

Job responsibilities


* Provide hands-on technical leadership by designing, developing, and deploying ML/LLM/GenAI solutions from concept through production, maintaining ownership for reliability and operability once deployed


* Work closely with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and prioritize use cases.


* Mentor and uplift junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and coaching, raising engineering quality and delivery discipline across the team.

You will build and institutionalize MLOps capabilities, including automated pipelines for deployment, monitoring, and model lifecycle management, with emphasis on scalability and reliability


* Implement optimization strategies to fine-tune generative models for specific NLP use cases, ensuring high-quality outputs in summarization and text generation.


* Conduct thorough evaluations of generative models (e.g., GPT-4.1), iterate on model architectures, and implement improvements to enhance overall performance in NLP applications.


* Implement monitoring mechanisms to track model performance in real-time and ensure model reliability.


* Communicate AI/ML/LLM/GenAI capabilities and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Stay informed about the latest trends and advancements in the latest AI/ML/LLM/GenAI research, implement cutting-edge techniques, and leverage external APIs for enhanced functionality.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 7+ years of demonstrated experience in applied AI/ML engineering, with a track record of developing and deploying business critical machine learning models in production.


* Demonstrate hands-on engineeri...