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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Digital Intelligence

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Program Optimization, Encodings, Distributed Computing Environment, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Software Engineering, Unstructured Data, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Network Optimization
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/preview/210777048

## About the Role

PhD with 2+ years OR Master's degree with 4+ in Computer Science, with training and work experience in Machine Learning, LLM/NLP or similar fields.

-Deep LLM and Transformer expertise - strong command of attention mechanisms, positional encodings such as RoPE, and the ability to handle multi-modal data inputs effectively.

-PyTorch proficiency at scale - hands-on experience with distributed training frameworks including FSDP and DeepSpeed, alongside practical memory optimization techniques.

-Foundation model training - proven experience in pre-training from scratch and designing tokens and vocabularies for complex, heterogeneous data sources including tabular, temporal, and graphical formats.

-Strong software engineering skills - ability to build robust, production-quality systems that perform reliably at scale.

-Prior experience with financial data and recommendation systems.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

 * Publication record at top AI/ML venues.
 * Experience optimizing serving infrastructure is a plus.

 * Experience with post-training LLMs and network optimization algorithms, as well as interpretability or steering techniques for LLMs.

 * Experience working with large-scale compute infrastructure.

 * Experience shipping a real-world product, project, or feature.

 * Experimental rigor and ablation design when benchmarking LLM optimizations.

 * Strong communication and accountability skills, with a collaborative mindset and strong work ethic.

This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase's review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries."

## Description

* Research and prototype next-generation architectures for structured and unstructured data

 * Develop novel pre-training objectives tailored to financial event sequences and heterogeneous profile data

 * Implement research ideas in production-quality code

 * Mentor engineers on ML best practices; translate research advances into deployable systems

 * Optimize training throughput for large data sources

 * Collaborate with other teams to design solutions for product use cases.
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