Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Associate

CIB Applied AI & Machine Learning – Digital & Platform Services Operations

About J.P. Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank

J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and wholesale payments. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

About Data Analytics within Corporate & Investment Bank

Data Analytics at J.P. Morgan Corporate Investment Bank combines cutting edge machine learning techniques with the company’s unique data assets to optimize all the business decisions we make. In this role, you will be part of our industry-leading data analytics team, and advance the state-of-the-art in financial applications ranging from generating business intelligence to predictive models and automated decision making.

The role will be in the firm’s Applied AI and Machine Learning organization and will involve working closely with Digital & Platform Services Operations.

The successful candidate will apply data analytics techniques from both traditional statistics and machine learning to a combination of third party, publicly available and J.P. Morgan proprietary datasets, with the goal of answering questions relevant to Operations.

About Operations

The Digital & Platform Services Operations teams support the Corporate & Investment Bank and its partners and functions including Technology, Data Science, Client Service, Product and Platform as well as other businesses and stakeholders across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Operations teams to formulate relevant financial and business questions that can be answered by data analysis.
• Research and analyze data sets using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Communicate final results and give context.
• Document approach and techniques used.
• Work on longer term projects, building tooling that can be used to scale certain types of analyses across multiple datasets and business use cases.
• Collaborate with other J.P. Morgan machine learning teams.

Required Technical Qualifications, experience & behaviors

• MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, or similar BS with experience in a highly quantitative position.
• Hands-on experience analyzing data.
• Strong ability to develop and debug in Python or similar professional programming language.
• Problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Should be able to work both individually and collaboratively in teams, in order to achieve project goals.
• Must be curious, hardworking and detail-oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems.
• Must have the ability to design or evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics of your model’s performance which are aligned with business goals.
• Must be able to independently research and propose alternatives with some guidance as to problem relevance.
• Must be able to undertake basic and advanced EDA, may require some direction from more senior team; should be aware of limitation and implication of methodology choices.
• Ensures re-use and sharing of ideas within team and locale.
• Able to work with non-specialists in a partnership model, conveys information clearly and creates a sense of trust with stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Ideally, some experience with machine learning APIs and computational packages (examples: TensorFlow, Theano, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, statsmodels).
• Experience with big-data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, SparkML, etc.
• Shows institutional awareness and some understanding of applied problem solving, may require coaching and guidance as to how to most rapidly reach satisfactory conclusion.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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.

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