Data Science Associate

Job Description
You thrive on diversity and creativity, and we welcome individuals who share our vision of making a lasting impact. Your unique combination of design thinking and experience will help us achieve new heights.
As a Data Science Associate at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset & Wealth Management, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a data engineering team, you execute data solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.
Job responsibilities

• Organizes, updates, and maintains gathered data that will aid in making the data actionable. Work with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements. Design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art AI/ML/LLM/GenAI solutions to meet business objectives.
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of the data system components to determine controls needed to ensure secure data access. Develop and maintain automated pipelines for model deployment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Conduct thorough evaluations of generative models (e.g., GPT-4), iterate on model architectures, and implement improvements to enhance overall performance in NLP applications.
• Be responsible for making custom configuration changes in one to two tools to generate a product at the business or customer request
• Updates logical or physical data models based on new use cases with minimal supervision. 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.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Data Science concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Experience in applied AI/ML engineering, with a track record of developing and deploying business critical machine learning models in production.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python for model development, experimentation, and integration with Azure OpenAI API.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, libraries, and APIs, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and Langchain/Llamaindex.
• Experience with agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), containerization technologies (e.g., Docker and Kubernetes), and microservices design, implementation, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of fundamentals of statistics, machine learning (e.g., classification, regression, time series, deep learning, reinforcement learning), and generative model architectures.
• Ability to identify and address AI/ML/LLM/GenAI challenges, implement optimizations and fine-tune models for optimal performance in NLP applications.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, communicate complex concepts, and contribute to interdisciplinary projects.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with the financial services industries.
• Expertise in designing and implementing AI/ML pipelines.
• Hands-on knowledge of Chain-of-Thoughts, Tree-of-Thoughts, Graph-of-Thoughts prompting strategies, RAG.
• A portfolio showcasing successful applications of generative models in NLP projects, including examples of utilizing OpenAI APIs.

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 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.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.