Job Description

Bring your Expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Senior Associate Data Scientist / Applied AI & ML practitioner in WM IR&A Managed Strategies Risk, you build and productionize AI/ML solutions that improve risk transparency, operational efficiency, and decision support. You partner with risk and technology stakeholders to modernize analytics through machine learning, NLP, and GenAI. You help us operate in a controlled risk-governance environment, ensuring solutions are robust and ethical. You will have the opportunity to mentor team members and contribute to best-in-class practices.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models and AI-enabled analytics for investment risk oversight and decision support
• Build end-to-end solutions including problem framing, data understanding, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Apply techniques such as classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, time-series modeling, NLP, and deep learning
• Develop GenAI solutions for risk workflows including document understanding, summarization, QA, retrieval-augmented generation, and workflow automation
• Implement and evaluate LLM-based systems with attention to quality, groundedness, drift, and operational controls
• Define best practices for prompts, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns for risk functions
• Partner with technology teams to productionize solutions (APIs, batch pipelines, dashboards) following engineering and control standards
• Contribute to model documentation, testing, monitoring, and performance tracking including model risk and audit readiness
• Communicate results clearly through concise write-ups and presentations to senior stakeholders
• Support governance forums, model reviews, audit discussions, and validation/regulatory requests with clear artifacts and explainable methodology
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to team standards for experimentation, reproducibility, and production ML practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 3 plus years of hands-on experience in data science, applied ML, or applied AI, delivering solutions used by stakeholders
• Strong Python skills and experience with ML/data libraries (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow)
• Demonstrated experience with GenAI/LLM-based applications (transformers, embeddings, RAG, evaluation methods, diffusion models, orchestration frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph or equivalents)
• Experience working with real-world data and building reliable pipelines (data quality checks, reproducibility, versioning)
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals and Deep Learning concepts including data representation, model selection, cross-validation, metrics, calibration, overfitting, neural network architecture, custom loss functions, and error analysis
• Ability to translate open-ended business questions into structured modeling problems and measurable outcomes
• Strong communication skills to explain modeling tradeoffs and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with risk oversight for managed strategies across Private Bank and Consumer Bank businesses
• Familiarity with proprietary and third-party investment products such as registered funds, ETFs/ETNs, separately managed accounts, hedge funds, private equity, and real estate funds
• Experience with responsible AI concepts (bias testing, explainability/interpretability, model governance).
• Experience in financial services, risk, or regulated environments
• Ability to define best practices for prompts, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails
• Experience with visualization and stakeholder tools (Tableau, Power BI, Plotly, Dash, Streamlit) and partnering with technology teams to implement solutions in production
• Experience mentoring and uplifting team members

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

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.