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Come Work With Us: Metropolitan Commercial Bank (“MCB” or the “Bank”) is a New York City–based, full-service commercial bank providing tailored banking solutions to businesses, institutions, and individuals. Founded in 1999, MCB operates banking centers in Manhattan and Boro Park, Brooklyn, within New York City, as well as in Great Neck on Long Island, New York, and Lakewood, New Jersey. The Bank recently expanded to Miami, Florida with their newest Brickell banking center. Metropolitan Commercial Bank offers a comprehensive suite of commercial, business, and personal banking products and services to small businesses, middle-market and corporate enterprises, private and public institutions, municipalities, and local government entities. The Bank has earned national recognition for its financial performance, innovation, and strategic growth. The Bank was named one of Newsweek’s Best Regional Banks in 2024 and 2025. Additionally, MCB recently received Editor’s Choice recognition at the Banking Tech Awards USA for Digital Onboarding & Omnichannel Banking and in 2026, the Bank earned Great Place To Work certification and received the Web Award Standard of Excellence for MCBankNY.com. We are a client-focused organization that values technological innovation and excellence. A strong technical mindset, AI fluency, and adaptive skills are essential for our employees to effectively contribute to our mission and drive our success. We foster human–AI teaming and strong governance to ensure technology is used responsibly and in alignment with Bank policies and procedures. For more information about the Bank, please visit the Bank’s website at MCBankNY.com .   Position Summary: Metropolitan Commercial Bank is seeking a VP-level Applied AI & Machine Learning Scientist to design, build, and validate production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions in a highly regulated banking environment. This role focuses on high-impact use cases—fraud detection, AML alert optimization, AI-assisted credit memo generation for underwriting decision support, contact center AI assistant/copilots, and personalization for treasury/commercial clients—delivered with rigorous governance, explainability, fairness testing, privacy-by-design, cybersecurity, and model lifecycle controls aligned to SR 11-7 and MCB’s Trustworthy & Responsible AI Principles. The role emphasizes Snowflake as the primary ML platform (e.g., Snowpark Python, UDFs/UDTFs, Tasks/Streams, and Snowflake-native ML). Standard 4-day in-office requirement, 1 day remote (of your choosing) Essential Functions & Responsibilities  Applied AI/ML development: Design and implement models for fraud detection, AML alert scoring/triage, AI-generated credit memo drafting and underwriting decision support, contact center AI assistants, and personalization for commercial/treasury use cases. Leverage modern methods: Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings and vector databases, transformers, boosting, anomaly/outlier detection, and classical ML. Embed explainability (e.g., SHAP, interpretable scorecards/monotonic models) and conduct pre-/post-deployment bias testing with documented remediation. Model validation, documentation & governance (SR 11‑7): Produce audit-ready documentation (methodology, assumptions, data lineage, limitations, testing) and register models in the inventory with owners/materiality. Facilitate independent validation/effective challenge; obtain required approvals before deployment; maintain change management and periodic review cadence. Define monitoring, drift thresholds, retraining triggers, and safe rollback/kill-switch procedures; maintain human-in-the-loop checkpoints for high-impact decisions. Productionization & MLOps on Snowflake Package, deploy, and operate models via CI/CD, containerization, and model registry; instrument