Investment Risk Senior Associate - Data Science/ Applied AI ML

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