Principal Architect (AIML & GenAI)

Job Description
You are a trailblazer, leading the way in a specific area of architecture and making a profound impact on the people, technologies, and projects across departments. With your impressive experience steering multiple complex projects forward, the entire firm will reach new levels of success.
As a Principal Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking division, you lead innovation for AIML platforms, Generative AI platform and other Enterprise Data platform specific architecture and drive impact within teams, technologies, and projects across departments. Utilize your in-depth knowledge of ML tools, experiment and build state of the art ML as well as GenAI Platforms. You will be part of an innovative team, working closely with Product Owners, ML Engineering and Software engineering to build new AI/ML solutions and help deliver and evangelize end-to-end architecture. You will also take mentor other ML engineers and scientists while fostering a culture of constant learning and Architecture evolution at the firm. We are looking for someone with a passion for data, ML, and scalable platforms, who can build ML solutions at-scale with a hands-on approach with detailed technical acumen.
Job responsibilities

• Owns and evangelizes solutions related to data architecture, ML Platform as well as GenAI platform architecture, provide tactical solution and design support to the team and embedded with engineering on the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Owns governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Serve as a subject matter expert on a wide range of ML techniques and optimizations.
• Provide in-depth knowledge of distributed ML platform deployment including training and serving.
• Create curative solutions using GenAI workflows through advanced proficiency in large language models (LLMs) and related techniques.
• Gain Experience with creating a Generative AI evaluation and feedback loop for GenAI/ML pipelines.
• Get Hands on code and design to bring the experimental results into production solutions by collaborating with engineering team.
• Owning end to end code development in python/Java for both proof of concept/experimentation and production-ready solutions.
• Optimizing system accuracy and performance by identifying and resolving inefficiencies and bottlenecks. Collaborates with product and engineering teams to deliver tailored, science and technology-driven solutions.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Machine Learning concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• MS and/or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• At least 10 years experience in one of the programming languages like Python, Java, C/C++, etc. Intermediate Python is a must.
• Solid understanding of using ML techniques specially in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Hands-on experience with machine learning and deep learning methods.
• Good understanding in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience in advanced applied ML areas such as GPU optimization, finetuning, embedding models, inferencing, prompt engineering, evaluation, RAG (Similarity Search).
• Ability to work on system design from ideation through completion with limited supervision.
• Passion for detail and follow through. Excellent communication skills and team player
• Demonstrated leadership in working effectively with engineers, product managers, and other ML practitioners.
• Practical cloud native experience such as AWS needed,

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Ray, MLFlow, and/or other distributed training frameworks.
• In-depth understanding of Embedding based Search/Ranking, Recommender systems, Graph techniques, and other advanced methodologies.
• Advanced knowledge in Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning.
• Deep understanding of Large Language Model (LLM) techniques, including Agents, Planning, Reasoning, and other related methods.
• Experience with building and deploying ML models on cloud platforms such as AWS and AWS tools like Sagemaker, EKS, etc

About Us
JPMorganChase, 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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.