JPMorgan Machine Learning Scientist - NLP Sr Associate 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

519982943

As a Machine Learning Scientist - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Senior Associate, you will apply sophisticated machine learning methods to complex tasks including natural language processing, speech analytics, time series, reinforcement learning and recommendation systems, collaborate with various teams, and actively participate in the knowledge sharing community.

Job Responsibilities

Research and explore new machine learning methods through independent study, attending industry-leading conferences, experimentation and participating in our knowledge sharing community
Develop state-of-the art machine learning models to solve real-world problems and apply it to tasks such as NLP, speech recognition and analytics, time-series predictions or recommendation systems
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

PhD in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Operations Research, Optimization, or Data Science Or an MS with at least 3 years of industry or research experience in the field.
Solid background in NLP or speech recognition and analytics, personalization/recommendation and hands-on experience and solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning methods
Extensive experience with machine learning and deep learning toolkits (e.g.: TensorFlow, PyTorch, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas)
Ability to design experiments and training frameworks, and to outline and evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics for model performance aligned with business goals
Experience with big data and scalable model training and solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences.
Scientific thinking with the ability to invent and to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environments
Solid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiences. Curious, hardworking and detail-oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Strong background in Mathematics and Statistics and familiarity with the financial services industries and continuous integration models and unit test development
Knowledge in search/ranking, Reinforcement Learning or Meta Learning
Experience with A/B experimentation and data/metric-driven product development, cloud-native deployment in a large scale distributed environment and ability to develop and debug production-quality code
Published research in areas of Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Reinforcement Learning at a major conference or journal