AI Engineer - Sr Lead Software Engineer

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Wilmington, DE, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
Lead engineering for production-grade agentic AI and LLM platforms. Design AWS cloud-native services, RAG solutions, vector storage, agent memory, APIs, and microservices. Establish MLOps, monitoring, governance, security, observability, and responsible AI practices. Provide technical direction, make architecture decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development standards across teams in a regulated enterprise environment.
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Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the AI/ML Data Platforms team, you will be a key member of an agile team responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will drive meaningful business impact through hands-on engineering leadership, applying deep technical expertise and structured problem-solving to address complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications. In this role, you will help design and deliver agentic AI platforms and large language model (LLM)-enabled services for enterprise use cases. You will contribute to architecture and engineering decisions, build cloud-native services on AWS, and improve system quality through strong evaluation, observability, and operational excellence practices. You will also raise engineering standards through high-quality code reviews, clear documentation, and effective collaboration across teams.

Job responsibilities

  • Provide technical guidance and direction to business and engineering teams by partnering with external teams to align on priorities, unblock delivery, and drive successful engineering outcomes.
  • Develop secure, high-quality production code and lead code reviews; review, debug, and improve code written by others to raise overall engineering quality.
  • Drive architecture and design decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations (including SDLC practices).
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas, helping teams make sound technical trade-offs and resolve complex problems.
  • Evaluate and introduce leading-edge technologies where appropriate, influencing peers and decision-makers with clear rationale and risk/benefit analysis.
  • Build and operate production-grade LLM applications, including agentic patterns and tool integrations for enterprise use cases.
  • Design and deliver cloud-native services on AWS using containers and serverless architectures, with strong attention to scalability and operational resilience.
  • Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, including embeddings, semantic search, and practical context engineering to improve answer quality and control.
  • Build reliable service APIs and integrations with a focus on security, performance, and maintainability.
  • Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain. 

  • Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale. 


Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills: 

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience 
  • Strong Python engineering skills; experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow 
  • Expertise working with Vector storage systems and designing memory for Agents 
  • Expertise developing long running agents that run autonomously using tools, skills and human in the loop 
  • Proven experience deploying LLM-backed services to production (APIs, microservices) 
  • Deep MLOps experience, including CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and model governance 
  • Cloud-native AI deployment experience (AWS or Azure), with cost and performance optimization 
  • Demonstrated commitment to responsible AI practices and operational excellence 
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, working across product, risk, legal, and compliance teams 
  • Demonstrated experience designing and leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams, including setting standards for human-in-the-loop validation, auditability/traceability of changes, and secure handling of sensitive data. 
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows, including security/resiliency implications, data sensitivity, and risk-based governance; ability to influence senior technical leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse.  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills: 

  • Experience with fine-tuning, adapters, or custom evaluation frameworks.
  • Background operating AI systems in regulated environments (finance, healthcare, etc.).
  • Experience with prompt engineering and LLM orchestration.
  • Knowledge of safety filters, audit logging, and explainability in production systems.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading architecture discussions.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical roadmaps and priorities.
About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the TeamOur professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Skills Required

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
  • 5 or more years of applied software engineering experience
  • Strong Python engineering skills
  • Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Expertise with vector storage systems and agent memory design
  • Experience developing autonomous long-running agents using tools, skills, and human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Experience deploying LLM-backed APIs and microservices to production
  • Deep MLOps experience, including CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and model governance
  • Cloud-native AI deployment experience with AWS or Azure
  • Experience optimizing cloud AI deployments for cost and performance
  • Knowledge of responsible AI practices and operational excellence
  • Strong communication and collaboration across product, risk, legal, and compliance teams
  • Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled development practices across teams
  • Understanding of human-in-the-loop validation, auditability, traceability, secure data handling, and AI governance
  • Experience with fine-tuning, adapters, or custom evaluation frameworks
  • Experience operating AI systems in regulated environments
  • Experience with prompt engineering and LLM orchestration
  • Knowledge of safety filters, audit logging, and explainability in production systems
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading architecture discussions
  • Ability to influence technical roadmaps and priorities

JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.

  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
Year Founded: 1799

What We Do

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

Why Work With Us

Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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