Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Research, develop, and implement machine learning algorithms to solve complex problems related to personalized financial services in retail and digital banking domains.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive innovation in banking products and services.
- Collaborate with product managers, key business stakeholders, engineering, and platform partners to lead challenging projects that deliver cutting-edge machine learning-driven digital solutions.
- Conduct research to develop state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms and models tailored to financial applications in personalization and recommendation spaces.
- Design experiments, establish mathematical intuitions, implement algorithms, execute test cases, validate results, and productionize highly performant, scalable, trustworthy, and often explainable solutions.
- Collaborate with data engineers and product analysts to preprocess and analyze large datasets from multiple sources.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest publications in relevant Machine Learning domains and find applications for the same in your problem spaces for improved outcomes.
- Communicate findings and insights to stakeholders through presentations, reports, and visualizations.
- Work with regulatory and compliance teams to ensure that machine learning models adhere to standards and regulations.
- Mentor Junior Machine Learning associates in delivering successful projects and building successful careers in the firm.
- Participate and contribute back to firm-wide Machine Learning communities through patenting, publications, and speaking engagements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or Machine learning related field.
- Expert in at least one of the following areas: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Reinforcement Learning, Ranking and Recommendation, or Time Series Analysis.
- Deep knowledge in Data structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Statistics.
- Demonstrated expertise in machine learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Pytorch, pyG, Keras, MXNet, Scikit-Learn.
- Strong programming knowledge of python, spark; Strong grasp on vector operations using numpy, scipy; Strong grasp on distributed computation using Multithreading, Multi GPUs, Dask, Ray, Polars etc.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills for problem solving.
- Excellent written and oral communication along with demonstrated teamwork skills.
- Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in working in interdisciplinary teams and collaborating with other researchers, engineers, and stakeholders.
- A strong desire to stay updated with the latest advancements in the field and continuously improve one's skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Deep hands-on experience with real-world ML projects, either through academic research, internships, or industry roles.
- Experience with distributed data/feature engineering using popular cloud services like AWS EMR
- Experience with large scale training, validation and testing experiments.
- Experience with cloud Machine Learning services in AWS like Sagemaker.
- Experience with Container technology like Docker, ECS etc.
- Experience with Kubernetes based platform for Training or Inferencing.
- Contributions to open-source ML projects can be a plus.
- Participation in ML competitions (e.g., Kaggle) and hackathons demonstrating practical skills and problem-solving abilities.
- Understanding of how ML can be applied to various domains like healthcare, finance, robotics, etc
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
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
