AI Platform Engineer – LLM & Agentic AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Software Engineer III to help design and deliver agentic AI platforms and LLM-enabled services for Finance. You will build cloud-native services on AWS and contribute to technical design.

The role requires strong Python, React frontend experience, and hands-on work with production LLM apps, agent patterns, and guardrails, with emphasis on reliability, security, and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 3+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience building and operating production large language model applications, including agentic patterns and tool integrations
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with ability to deliver cloud-native services using containers and serverless designs on AWS
• Advanced python programming skills with experience writing production quality code
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation approaches, including embeddings and semantic search, and practical context engineering
• Proficiency building React based front end experience that integrates backend API and provides strong attention to reliability, security, and performance
• Experience establishing or contributing to evaluation, testing, and monitoring practices for AI system quality and reliability
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, including asynchronous workflows and event-driven architecture
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to partners
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices

Responsibilities

• Design and implement components of scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for enterprise workflows
• Build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration
• Implement retrieval and context-engineering patterns including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management
• Engineer cloud-native services on AWS using containers, serverless compute, and event-driven messaging patterns
• Optimize latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost across large language model workloads
• Develop secure, reusable APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to enterprise platforms and workflows
• Implement evaluation, experimentation, regression testing, and observability signals to improve quality and agent behavior over time
• Partner with product, platform, and engineering teams to translate requirements into resilient, measurable deliverables
• Contribute to technical standards and code quality through design reviews, documentation, and peer code reviews
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables, while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Skills

Python

React

AWS

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Education

Formal training/certification in software engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Serverless

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Software Engineer III to help design and deliver agentic AI platforms and LLM-enabled services for Finance. You will build cloud-native services on AWS and contribute to technical design.

The role requires strong Python, React frontend experience, and hands-on work with production LLM apps, agent patterns, and guardrails, with emphasis on reliability, security, and measurable outcomes.