Join the Payments and Global Banking Technology team as an Executive Director and Senior Principal Engineer for Applied AI/ML. This is a hands-on, code-every-day role focused on application-layer engineering, using large language models as components within robust, scalable systems. You will design and build production search, conversational AI, and agentic workflow systems powered by generative AI to solve real business problems in banking and financial services. You will work with a team of engineers, but this is not a people management role.
As an Executive Director-Applied AI/ML Lead in Payments and Global Banking Technology, you serve as the senior hands-on technical authority designing and building production search, conversational AI, and agentic workflow systems powered by generative AI. You lead through technical excellence—setting the bar, unblocking hard problems, and increasing team effectiveness through craft and judgment. You make architecture and implementation decisions across retrieval strategies, agent design, orchestration patterns, and system design. You focus on building robust, scalable systems that solve real business problems in banking and financial services.
You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into high-quality technical solutions, while raising engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
Job responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and personally implement production-grade search, chatbot, and agentic workflow systems, writing and reviewing code daily.
- Serve as the organization’s senior technical authority on large language model (LLM)-powered applications, owning decisions around retrieval strategies, agent design, orchestration patterns, and system architecture.
- Design and build scalable retrieval pipelines (hybrid search, re-ranking, chunking, and embedding strategies) and conversational AI systems with robust dialogue management and backend integration.
- Design and implement agentic workflows (tool use, multi-step planning, orchestration, error recovery, and human-in-the-loop patterns) for complex business processes.
- Solve hard systems challenges, including latency optimization, reliability at scale, observability, and evaluation of non-deterministic systems.
- Define technical standards, design patterns, and reference architectures for generative AI-powered applications across the organization.
- Elevate engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems at scale, with significant recent focus on search, conversational AI, or workflow automation.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python, distributed systems, application programming interface (API) design, and microservices architecture.
- Strong understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, including prompt engineering, context management, and output parsing, and effective use of models as components without training or fine-tuning them.
- Deep experience with retrieval systems, conversational AI, or agentic architectures (tool calling, multi-step planning, orchestration, and failure handling), across more than one of these areas.
- Strong systems thinking, including designing for latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and graceful degradation in non-deterministic AI systems.
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services for production applications.
- Proven ability to elevate team output through technical leadership without relying on management hierarchy.
- Excellent technical communication skills across engineering and non-technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Experience building evaluation and testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications.
- Familiarity with advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, including query decomposition, multi-index routing, contextual compression, and knowledge graph integration.
- Experience with agent orchestration at scale, including parallel tool execution, stateful workflows, and cost/token management.
- Experience operating AI-powered systems in regulated environments, including model governance and explainability.
This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries
About UsWe 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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems at scale, with recent focus on search, conversational AI, or workflow automation
- Expert-level proficiency in Python, distributed systems, API design, and microservices architecture
- Strong understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, prompt engineering, context management, and output parsing
- Deep experience with retrieval systems, conversational AI, or agentic architectures across more than one area
- Strong systems thinking regarding latency, throughput, cost efficiency, and graceful degradation in nondeterministic AI systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services for production applications
- Ability to elevate team output through technical leadership without relying on management hierarchy
- Excellent technical communication skills with engineering and nontechnical audiences
- Experience building evaluation and testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications
- Familiarity with advanced RAG patterns, including query decomposition, multi-index routing, contextual compression, and knowledge graph integration
- Experience with agent orchestration at scale, including parallel tool execution, stateful workflows, and cost/token management
- Experience operating AI-powered systems in regulated environments, including model governance and explainability
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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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