AI Research Scientist - Natural Language Processing; NLP - Senior Associate

AI Research Scientist – NLP – Senior Associate

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The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company's data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision‑making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm’s commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.

As an AI Research Scientist – Senior Associate on the AI Research team, you will conduct end‑to‑end research typically within a specialized focus area and collaborate on multiple research projects with internal and external researchers and applied engineering teams. Your output will result in high‑impact business applications, open‑source software, patents and/or publications in AI/ML conferences and journals. The goal of J.P. Morgan AI Research is to explore and advance cutting‑edge research in AI, including ML as well as related fields like cryptography, impacting clients and businesses, with a team of experts located in New York, London, Madrid, Paris, and the Bay Area.

• Conduct end‑to‑end research typically within Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Collaborate with internal and external researchers and with applied engineering teams
• Engage in all aspects of the research lifecycle such as formulating problems, gathering data, generating hypotheses, developing models and algorithms, conducting experiments, synthesizing results, building prototype applications and communicating the significance of your research
• Produce outputs that lead to high‑impact business applications, open‑source software, patents and/or publications in top AI/ML conferences and journals
• Participate in relevant top‑tier academic conferences to broaden the impact of your contributions

• PhD in Computer Science or related field or a MS with at least 3 years of experience in the field
• Research publications in prominent NLP venues; e.g., conferences, journals
• Strong expertise in one or more specialized areas of relevance e.g., LLM‑based reasoning, foundational models, multimodal document analytics, knowledge representation, natural language processing and understanding
• Experience in NLP/ML platforms such as Tensor Flow/Keras, PyTorch, AWS, Hugging Face, etc.
• Proficiency with rapid prototyping and disciplined software development processes
• Expertise in software engineering within collaborative project settings

• Extensive programming skills in Python, Java or C++
• Interest in problems related to the financial services domain (specific past experience in the domain is not required)

JPMorgan

Chase, 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…