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Director, Data Science

Fidelity

Location

Jersey City, NJ

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/9/2026

Compensation

$183,000 - $212,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Master's with 2+ Years of Experience
PhD Entry-Level
H-1B FY202699.4% approval-62% YoY
💎 Strong sponsor

Job description

This position involves leading the development and delivery of advanced AI solutions for financial services, focusing on Large Language Model (LLM) powered applications. The role requires strategic and technical leadership in designing, training, and deploying transformer-based models. The successful candidate will work in an innovation-driven environment, guiding product development from ideation to production-ready implementation. Collaboration with engineering, product, and business stakeholders is essential to advance AI capabilities and deliver impactful solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Physics, or a closely related field and six years of experience in a related occupation.
  • Master's degree in the same fields with four years of experience in a related occupation.
  • PhD in the same fields with one year of experience in a related occupation.
  • Demonstrated expertise in designing scalable ML workflows using Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience in architecting and optimizing distributed training and inference systems.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee LLM post-training activities including fine-tuning and performance evaluation.
  • Architect and optimize distributed ML training and inference systems.
  • Manage model hosting, serving, and deployment pipelines using containerization technologies.
  • Develop synthetic data pipelines and evaluation methodologies to enhance model accuracy.
  • Guide cross-functional teams in delivering AI-enabled features and products.

Benefits

  • Fidelity offers competitive compensation, annual bonuses, retirement contributions, comprehensive healthcare coverage, parental leave, tuition assistance, wellness programs, and extensive professional development opportunities.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Fidelity Technology Group Llc D B A Fidelity Investments

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

64

FY2026

Approval rate

99.4%

FY2026

LCA certified

1,080

FY2026

Entry-level share

1.5%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-62%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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