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2027 Machine Learning Center of Excellence (Quant AI) – Summer Associate

A summer internship in JPMorgan's central machine learning group, applying modern ML to the firm's data. The team works with traders, portfolio managers, quants and salespeople.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

  • Study recent machine learning research and test new methods on firm data
  • Build and train models for a business problem handed to your project
  • Design experiments and metrics that link model performance to business goals
  • Work with business and technology partners toward a production deployment

What they ask for

Required

  • Enrolled in a PhD or MS in a quantitative field, finishing Dec 2027 to Aug 2028
  • Programming in C/C++, Python or Java
  • Machine learning, data mining and optimisation
  • Statistics and applied maths
  • TensorFlow, PyTorch or JAX
  • Batch and real-time ETL pipelines
  • Experiment design

Preferred

  • Interest in quantitative finance or portfolio management
  • CPU and GPU architecture and HPC
  • XLA compilers
  • Distributed system design
Education
Currently enrolled in a PhD or MS in computer science, physics, maths, engineering or a related field.
Experience
Current graduate students; summer internship.
Languages and tools
  • Python
  • C++
  • Java
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • JAX

How to prepare

  • Train a deep learning model in PyTorch or JAX on a time-series dataset and report the right metrics
  • Revise optimisation and statistics fundamentals behind model training
  • Build a small batch plus streaming data pipeline
  • Read recent finance ML papers and note where they fail out of sample

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with JPMorgan and doesn’t handle applications.

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