As a Senior Associate in AI Research, you will work on developing novel techniques, tools, and frameworks to model and solve complex large-scale problems in the bank. You will develop a close understanding of the challenges in practical applications of AI and leverage that understanding to formulate new research directions and solutions that can shift the frontier. Your work will span from early-stage innovation and rigorous evaluation to production-scale delivery in close collaboration with engineering and product teams

Job responsibilities

• Work on multiple commercially oriented research projects in collaboration with internal data scientists, applied engineering teams and stakeholders across businesses e.g. Commercial & Investment Banking (including Markets), Asset & Wealth Management, Consumer & Community Banking, etc.
• Formulate problems, generate hypotheses, develop new algorithms and models, conduct experiments and rigorous evaluations, synthesize and communicate results, and deliver well-tested, high-quality code.
• Contribute to high-impact business applications, reusable assets and products, and research initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on internal and external forums through white papers, publications and presentations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Fresh PhD or MS in Computer science, Engineering, or related fields with relevant research experience in AI/ML with 2 + years of relevant work experience
• Research publications in top-tier AI/ML venues (e.g., conferences, journals) 6 broad conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc., or highly regarded specialized conferences such as ICAPS, CRYPTO, etc.
• Ability to deliver modular, optimized, high-quality Python code with tests
• Deep understanding of fundamental AI/ML techniquesand a strong grasp of current state of the art in specific areas of expertise
• Practical experience with statistical data analysis, experimental design and creation of meaningful benchmarks and metrics for evaluation.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to address both technical and business audiences.
• Motivated to make an impact on problems in the financial services domain.Curiosity, creativity, resourcefulness, and a collaborative spirit
• We are looking for researchers across multiple areas of specialization, including: Synthetic Data Generation across multiple modalities (tabular, images, time-series, etc.), synthetic personas and agent simulations - Multimodal agent security and safety, alignment, guardrails, red teaming, data privacy and unlearning. Continual learning for agents (e.g. memory-based, model-based including reinforcement learning and post-training). Advanced multi-agent systems including co-ordination, negotiation, deep research, and hybrid / neuro-symbolic approaches. Foundation model training for tabular, time-series, language and other modalities. Multimodal information discovery, understanding and predictive modeling spanning multiple modalities e.g. websites, news, audio, speech, documents, images, etc. Formal methods (e.g., temporal logic, constraint programming, model checking, automated planning, theorem proving, SMT/SAT solving) and program/hardware verification.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical experience with ML libraries (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, HuggingFace Transformers etc.) and agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, Google ADK, etc.)
• Familiarity with common formal verification tools and languages (e.g., Coq/Isabelle/Lean, TLA+, Alloy, Z3, PDDL)
• Practical software development experience in collaborative project settings such as open-source projects or industry experience.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical problem formations and deliver novel solutions into production.