American Express—Mgr-AI Innovation & Research

Job description

Description: AI Labs seeks a Senior AI Researcher (Senior Manager) to lead a team of Ai researchers that will powers credit, fraud and marketing decisions. The candidate serves as a thought leader and a problem-solver who can blend business, technical, and industry best practices when it comes to developing the models, and algorithms that power our customers’ digital experiences. This role sits at the intersection of applied AI research, large-scale AI platforms, and large-scale compute infrastructure. The Sr. Manager will help define and execute a forward-looking research agenda and help to translate cutting-edge machine learning, and systems innovation into scalable, governed, and business-critical AI capabilities. Role is focused on creation and integration of foundational models that can provide value for multiple modelling usecases. The ideal candidate will combine deep hand-on ML research expertise with strong practical knowledge and experience in building scalable infrastructure and data science platforms. Colleagues in AI Labs serve as key members of the Global Decision Science organization within Credit and Fraud Risk at American Express. This critical team is responsible for managing enterprise risks throughout the customer lifecycle, across our consumer and commercial businesses, and across all our global products. We develop industry-first data capabilities, build profitable decision-making frameworks, create machine learning-powered predictive models, and improve customer servicing strategies. Our Global Decision Science teams use industry leading modelling and AI practices to predict customer behaviour. We develop, deploy and validate predictive models and support the use of models in economic logic to enable profitable decisions across credit, fraud, marketing and servicing optimization engines.