2026 Machine Learning Center of Excellence (Time Series & Reinforcement Learning) – Summer Associate

Overview

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. As a part of CDAO, The Machine Learning Center of Excellence (MLCOE) partners across the firm to shape, create, and deploy Machine Learning Solutions for our most challenging business problems. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company’s data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision-making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm’s commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.As a Summer Associate within the MLCOE, you will apply sophisticated machine learning methods to a wide variety of complex domains within natural language processing, large language models, speech recognition and understanding, reinforcement learning, and recommendation systems. You must excel in working in a highly collaborative environment with their MLCOE mentors, business experts and technologists in order to conduct independent research and deploy solutions into production. You must have a strong passion for machine learning, solid expertise in deep learning with hands-on implementation experience, and invest independent time towards learning, researching, and experimenting with innovations in the field. Learn more about our MLCOE team at jpmorgan.com/mlcoe.Our Summer Associate Internship Program begins in June, depending on your academic calendar. Your professional growth and development will be supported throughout the internship program via project work related to your academic and professional interests, mentorship, an engaging speaker series with our senior leaders and more. Your project will have direct impact on JPMorgan’s businesses, will be integrated into our product pipelines, or be part of published research in top AI/ML conferences. Full-time employment offers may be extended upon successful completion of the program.Job responsibilitiesResearch and explore new machine learning methods through independent study, attending industry-leading conferences, experimentation and participating in our knowledge sharing communityDevelop state-of-the art machine learning models to solve real-world problems and apply it to tasks such as time-series predictions, market modelling, and decision optimizations.Collaborate with multiple partner teams such as Business, Technology, Product Management, Legal, Compliance, Strategy and Business Management to deploy solutions into productionRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skillsPh.D. or in the last year of a Ph.D. program in machine learning, statistics, mathematics, computer science, economics, finance, science, engineering, or other quantitative fieldsKnowledge of machine learning / data science theory, techniques, and toolsScientific thinking, ability to work with literature and the ability to implement complex projectsAbility to understand business problem, study literature for a solution approach, write high quality code for the chosen method, design training and experimentation to validate the algorithms and implementation, and to evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic metrics for model performance aligned with business goalsSolid written and spoken communication to effectively communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and business audiencesAbility to work both independently and in highly collaborative team environmentsExcellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills and demonstrated research abilityCurious, hardworking, detail-oriented and motivated by complex analytical problemsPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skillsKnowledge of Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Calculus, Bayesian techniques, Statistics, State-Space models, MCMC, DSGE models, MCTS / distributed compute, NLP, accountingKnowledge and experience with Reinforcement Learning methodsKnowledge of python, Tensorflow, tf-agent, Ray, RLLib, Tune, or other ML frameworks, etc.Experience with any of OOP, graph-based computation engines, large scale software development, C++/Java/CUDA, performance focused implementations, numerical algorithms, distributed computing, cloud computing, data transformation pipelinesFamiliarity with continuous integration models and unit test developmentPublished research in areas of natural language processing, speech recognition, reinforcement learning, or deep learning at a major conference or journalStrong passion for machine learning and habits to invest independent time towards learning, researching, and experimenting with innovations across a variety of fields. #MLCOE_jobs ABOUT US J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.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. 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JPMorgan Chase

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Senior (5+ years of experience)

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