JPMorgan Chase
Vice President – Data Scientist Lead (LLM/GenAI)
$128K–$200K
Chicago, IL +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, IL
Plano, TX - Experience
- 5+ years of applied machine learning or NLP experience, including production deployment.
- Education
- Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. No employment-based immigration sponsorship or assistance with other immigration sponsorship or benefits, including OPT or CPT.
About the job
Leads the development and production deployment of governed generative AI and LLM solutions to improve planning, efficiency, service, and controls in Commercial Banking.
What you'll do
- Develop and deploy LLM applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, and use cases such as search, summarization, and recommendations.
- Build evaluation frameworks and data pipelines, and work with engineering and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable production services.
- Conduct applied research, communicate solutions and results to stakeholders, and mentor junior data scientists.
What they ask for
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of applied machine learning or NLP experience, including production deployment.
- Experience with NLP and LLMs, including prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation, and Amazon Bedrock or an equivalent managed LLM platform; enterprise experience with Cortex, including Cortex Analyst or related workflows.
- Python skills; experience with ML frameworks and tooling, APIs, data pipelines, and software engineering practices.
Nice to have
- Deep understanding of LLM agents, planning, and reasoning; experience with machine learning operations.
- Experience with cloud deployment, preferably AWS, and production containers or orchestration platforms.
Pay
USD 128,250.00-$200,000.00 base salary (Chicago, IL); USD 128,250.00-$200,000.00 base salary (Plano, TX)
Tools
Amazon Bedrock, Cortex, Amazon SageMaker, Databricks, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
AI focus
Leads development and deployment of generative AI and LLM solutions, including RAG, agents, evaluation, safety checks, and governed analytics workflows.
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