Applied AI ML Director

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Palo Alto, CA +1 · Corporate Sector

Director role focused on architecting and scaling production-grade LLM systems and agentic workflows for financial tasks at JPMorgan Chase. This role emphasizes shipping AI products at enterprise scale, bridging research with engineering, and leading teams to deliver measurable business impact.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and deliver production LLM based systems (text, image, speech, video) powering mission-critical LLM Suite products.
  2. Own end-to-end delivery, performance, and continuous improvement of individual LLM Suite products.
  3. Bridge advanced AI research with robust engineering to build innovative, production-ready solutions.
  4. Drive results with an entrepreneurial mindset in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

Skills

Required

  • PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline.
  • Extensive hands-on experience as an individual contributor in ML engineering, with a proven track record of shipping production AI systems.
  • Deep expertise in NLP, Computer Vision, and/or Multimodal LLM algorithms, with a strong foundation in statistics, optimization, and ML theory.
  • Practical experience implementing distributed, multi-threaded, and scalable applications using frameworks such as Ray, Horovod, DeepSpeed, etc.
  • Exceptional communication skills, able to convey complex technical concepts and build trust with stakeholders at all levels.

Nice to have

  • Advanced proficiency in designing and deploying production ML pipelines using DAG frameworks, including custom operator development and pipeline optimization.
  • Expertise in architecting and implementing high-throughput, low-latency microservices with gRPC, REST, and GraphQL, including protocol buffer schema design, streaming endpoints, and load balancing.
  • Hands-on experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, IA3), model quantization (INT8, FP16, GPTQ), and quantization-aware training for LLMs at scale.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed training strategies (data/model/pipe parallelism), memory optimization, and inference acceleration for large-scale multimodal models.
  • Experience with advanced agentic workflow orchestration, including multi-agent coordination, stateful task management, and integration with enterprise event-driven architectures.

What the JD emphasized

  • production-grade LLM systems
  • architect and scale robust, reusable APIs and agentic workflows
  • production AI systems
  • enterprise scale
  • production LLM based systems
  • production-ready solutions
  • production ML pipelines
  • high-throughput, low-latency microservices
  • large-scale multimodal models
  • agentic workflow orchestration

Other signals

  • production LLM systems
  • enterprise scale AI
  • architect and scale robust, reusable APIs and agentic workflows