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Applied AI ML Director

at J.P. Morgan

Tech LeadNo visa sponsorshipData Science/AI/ML

Posted 7 hours ago

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Compensation: Not specified USD
City: Seattle
Country: United States

Lead and grow a high-performing team of senior AI engineers to deliver production-grade agentic AI systems for financial services. Define technical direction, set engineering standards, and ensure operational excellence across multiple use cases, with a focus on responsible AI and measurable business impact. Act as technical authority for applied AI/ML, making architecture decisions and leading design through deployment, with collaboration across platform, data, and infrastructure teams. Manage cross-functional collaboration, hiring, and talent development while overseeing scalable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient AI systems.

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Join JPMorgan Chase and help shape the future of AI-driven innovation in financial services.

As an Applied AI / ML Director in AI ML & Data Platform Team, you will lead, mentor, and inspire a team of senior AI engineers to deliver production-grade agentic AI systems. You will partner with us to define technical direction, set engineering standards, and ensure operational excellence across multiple use cases. Your leadership will drive innovation, foster a culture of experimentation and responsible AI, and help us deliver solutions that make a measurable business impact. Together, we will build the next generation of AI systems for the firm.

Job Responsibilities:

Define and evolve agentic AI architectures, including orchestration, retrieval, memory, guardrails, and evaluation

Act as technical authority for applied AI/ML, making architecture decisions and setting production-readiness standards

Stay hands-on by reviewing code, prototyping complex components, and unblocking critical technical challenges

Ensure AI/ML systems are scalable, reliable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient

Partner with platform, data, and infrastructure teams on distributed systems and training/serving patterns

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of applied AI/ML engineers

Set clear technical expectations, career paths, and standards of excellence

Foster a culture of strong engineering fundamentals, experimentation, and responsible AI practices

Hire senior technical talent and raise the bar across the organization

Oversee delivery of multi-agent systems that automate and scale end-to-end workflows

Collaborate with product, risk, legal, and compliance partners to ensure solutions are innovative and deployable

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

10 years of experience building and deploying applied AI/ML systems, with significant recent hands-on work

Experience leading and managing teams of senior engineers

Deep understanding of machine learning and AI fundamentals, including modern generative AI and LLM-based systems

Proven track record delivering AI/ML solutions to production at scale

Strong familiarity with distributed systems for training, inference, and state management

Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Demonstrated experience setting engineering standards and driving operational excellence

Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a regulated environment

Strong coding and code review skills in Python and modern ML frameworks

Commitment to responsible AI practices and continuous improvement

Ability to mentor and develop engineering talent

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

Experience with agentic systems, multi-agent architectures, and LLM evaluation frameworks

Experience deploying AI workloads on AWS (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock) or equivalent platforms

Background building AI systems in regulated or high-reliability environments

Experience integrating user feedback loops for continuous model and system improvement

Familiarity with financial services or asset and wealth management workflows

Track record of hiring and developing senior technical talent

Experience fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

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Lead and grow a high-performing team building production-grade agentic AI systems for impactful solutions in financial services.

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