AI/ML Engineering Lead, VP - AI for Payments

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• We require a masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
• We look for at least 6 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• We require 4 years of advanced Python development in production, including experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code to improve throughput while maintaining code quality.
• We need 4 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying production machine learning systems on AWS, such as SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, or S3.
• We seek demonstrated success delivering AI/ML solutions at scale with measurable business impact.
• We require experience with object-oriented design, distributed systems, and performance engineering.
• We look for demonstrated experience building and deploying LLM-based applications, including retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning workflows.
• We require hands-on production experience with NLP, computer vision, OCR, or document AI solutions.
• We seek experience implementing MLOps practices using tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, feature stores, or model registries.
• We want demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving execution against multi-quarter roadmaps.
• We require strong communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into technical deliverables for senior stakeholders.
• Preferred: experience delivering AI/ML solutions in wholesale payments, transaction banking, or financial services.
• Preferred: experience with model risk management frameworks, model governance, and responsible AI practices.
• Preferred: experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Preferred: experience with real-time or streaming inference use cases.
• Preferred: contributions to open-source machine learning ecosystems or peer-reviewed publications.

• We partner with senior business stakeholders to frame problems, define success metrics, and align AI/ML roadmaps with business priorities.
• We lead architecture, design, and end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI/ML solutions for Wholesale Payments Operations.
• We write clean, performant, production-quality code and help set engineering standards across the team.
• We champion modern SDLC, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• We deploy and operate AI/ML services on AWS at scale.
• We apply advanced techniques including data and text mining, document analysis, classification, OCR, NLP, and LLM workflows such as retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning.
• We design and implement scalable, secure data pipelines to support model training and inference.
• We define and enforce MLOps, model governance, monitoring, and responsible AI practices, and represent the team in architecture and risk forums.
• We evaluate model performance in production, including drift management and reproducibility.
• We mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and support recruiting and talent development.

• AI
• Airflow
• AWS
• Lambda
• CI/CD
• Claude Code
• Copilot
• Computer Vision
• DevOps
• Fine-tuning
• GitHub
• Support
• Kubeflow
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• MLflow
• MLOps
• Model Training
• Python
• Terraform
• Cloud
• Web

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We are JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, serving millions of consumers, small businesses, and leading corporate, institutional, and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans more than 200 years, and we are a global leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. For this role, we are building scalable AI/ML capabilities for Wholesale Payments Operations, focused on document processing, workflow automation, and reusable production patterns. We offer a competitive total rewards package with salary based on role, experience, skill set, and location, along with eligible incentive compensation and a range of benefits such as comprehensive health care, wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity, and our Commercial & Investment Bank operates globally across banking, markets, securities services, and payments in more than 100 countries.

last updated 40 week of 2026