Sr Lead Software Engineer - Data Science

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on building and deploying Transformer-based neural networks, including fine-tuning pre-trained models, for timeseries datasets within a fintech domain. The role involves MLOps practices like A/B testing and canary deployments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  4. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  5. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Required

  • software engineering concepts
  • Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • one or more programming language(s)
  • PyTorch
  • Numpy
  • Transformer-based neural networks
  • transfer learning
  • fine-tuning pre-trained models
  • regularization techniques (dropout, layer normalization, weight decay)
  • custom tokenization strategies
  • embedding layers
  • ML models on timeseries datasets
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • model deployment lifecycle (MLOps)
  • A/B testing
  • canary deployment strategies

Nice to have

  • building ML models on timeseries datasets
  • one or more programming language(s)
  • Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years applied experience
  • Proficient in designing and building Transformer-based neural networks, including transfer learning and fine-tuning pre-trained models for downstream tasks
  • Good experience building ML models on timeseries datasets

Other signals

  • Transformer-based neural networks
  • transfer learning
  • fine-tuning
  • ML models on timeseries datasets
  • model deployment lifecycle (MLOps)