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Credit Portfolio Group – Quantitative Research, AI Tools

A quant research role supporting JPMorgan's Credit Portfolio Group, which manages retained lending exposure using loans and CDS. The focus is building AI, LLM and machine-learning tools for the desk.

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.

Build LLM and agent-based tools for market analysis, credit curve upkeep and trade ideas
Automate daily risk and position reports for the desk
Develop ML signals and portfolio optimisation for hedging credit concentrations
Maintain tools for curve reconciliation and loan sale execution
Work with model control on approval of new models

What they ask for

Required

Advanced degree in maths, statistics, physics, financial engineering or CS
4+ years in quant or analytics for a fixed income or credit desk
Hands-on AI agent, ML or LLM applications
Portfolio optimisation
Python and data science
Credit market interest
Clear communication

Education: Advanced degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, financial engineering, computer science or similar
Experience: 4+ years in quant, markets or analytics roles on a fixed income, credit or lending desk
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: credit, fixed-income

How to prepare

Build a small LLM-assisted tool that summarises credit news and flags names for review
Learn how CDS and loan markets work and how portfolio hedging is done
Implement mean-variance or risk-budget optimisation with constraints
Practise automating risk reports with a reproducible Python pipeline

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