Applied AI/ML Personalization - Sr. Associate

Data Analytics at JPMorgan 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 Global Research. The successful candidate will apply data analytics techniques from both traditional statistics and machine learning to a combination of third party, publically available and JPMorgan proprietary datasets, with the goal of answering questions relevant to our Research analysts and the firm's clients.

Internal Description

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 at JPMorgan CIB

Data Analytics at JPMorgan Corporate Investment Bank combines cutting edge machine learning techniques with the company's unique data assets to optimize all the business decisions we make. We strive to be leaders in technological innovation by deploying cutting-edge AI techniques and driving the first adoption of strategic platforms such as OmniAI and cloud. At the same time, culture matters to us and we have worked hard to foster a community amongst all AI and ML practitioners firm-wide to promote sharing, collaboration, learning and, most importantly, fun.

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 Global Research.

The Global Research business is committed to delivering the most relevant and timely financial analysis content to the firm's clients. The Global Research Data Science and Machine Learning team is looking for an energetic and entrepreneurial candidate with 2-4 years of experience to build personalization models for Global Research content

About Global Research

The firm's Research team provides clients with informed views and actionable ideas on economic indicators, markets, companies and asset classes around the world. Its top ranked research analysts, strategists and economists are located in 27 countries in developed and emerging economies. CIB Research strives to be a leader in articulating its unique and independent perspectives in the regions where we want to do business.

Clients of the CIB, Asset Management, and other lines of business value the expertise of Research in helping them achieve their objectives. They recognize its commitment with top-tier rankings in surveys conducted by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, Orion and many others.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Research product managers, technologists and content creators (Research analysts) to formulate relevant business questions that can be answered by data analysis.
• Work with Research product managers and technologists on longer term projects to implement intelligent distribution systems in the Research platform.
• Design, code up and own production-ready statistical and machine learning models to meet business goals, consistent with best practices.
• Communicate results with senior stakeholders and document approaches and techniques used.
• Collaborate with other JP Morgan machine learning teams.

Required Technical Qualifications and experience

• Minimum 2 years experience in a data analytics type role
• MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, or similar BS with experience in highly quantitative position
• Must have hands-on experience analyzing data in a professional setting
• Preference towards candidates who have worked on personalization or recommendation systems before.
• Ideally, some experience with machine learning APIs and computational packages (examples: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas ,statsmodels)
• Ideally some experience with big-data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, SparkML, or similar
• Able to work with non-specialists in a partnership model, conveys information clearly and creates a sense of trust with stakeholders

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.

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

The health and safety of our colleagues, candidates, clients and communities has been a top priority in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. JPMorgan Chase was awarded the "WELL Health-Safety Rating" for all of our 6,200 locations globally based on our operational policies, maintenance protocols, stakeholder engagement and emergency plans to address a post-COVID-19 environment.

As a part of our commitment to health and safety, we have implemented various COVID-related health and safety requirements for our workforce. Full vaccination is a requirement for this role for new hires joining JPMorgan Chase. Additional requirements include sharing information including your vaccine card in the firm's vaccine record tool and may include mask wearing and social distancing. Requirements may change in the future with the evolving public health landscape. JPMorgan Chase will consider accommodation requests as required by applicable law.

Note: The requirement to be fully vaccinated to be hired for this role does not apply to roles with a work location in Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Tennessee. For applicants to these roles, JPMorgan Chase will consider all qualified applicants regardless of vaccination status, due to state and local laws.

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