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JPMorgan Chase

Senior Lead Software Engineer - AI Engineering

JPMorgan Chase, Palo Alto, California, United States, 94306


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 JPMorgan Chase within the Engineer's Platform & Integrated Experience (EPIX) organization, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. For this role, you will build and deploy cutting-edge Generative AI RAG and Agentic systems to augment processes for the software development lifecycle (SDLC) across the firm.

Job responsibilities

Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle. Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies. Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. Deploy LLMs, Vector datastores, and RAG systems as a service with scalability and security requirements. Design, implement and deploy scalable data pipelines on distributed compute platforms. Deploy and operate Generative AI benchmarking systems to advance the firm's understanding of various LLM and Agentic system capabilities. Evaluate Generative AI Products and procure into JPMC following proper firmwide standards and control policies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability. Advanced in one or more programming language(s): Python, Go, JavaScript, Java. Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.). Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight. Practical cloud-native experience. Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field. Highly capable with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and container-based application deployments. Strong experience with enabling and executing distributed compute for data engineering and AI/ML training/fine-tuning. Experience with AI/ML Ops tools, experiment tracking, model lifecycle, and governance best practices. Experience with open-source frameworks: Ray, Spark, PyTorch, LlamaIndex, LangChain.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with Vector datastores, Chroma, Elastic, DeepLake. Some experience with NLP projects using prompt engineering, prompt-based learning, Chain-Of-Thought techniques. Knowledge of various LLM fine-tuning techniques: SFT, RLHF, DPO, Lora, Quantization.

About us

JPMorgan Chase, 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/Veteran.

About the Team

Our 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr