AI Platform Engineer & Tech Lead for Secure AI

JPMorgan Chase; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build trusted market-leading AI-enabled technology products. You will be a core technical contributor driving secure, scalable delivery across multiple business functions.

The role emphasizes leading AI-assisted engineering practices, code quality, and incident analysis while collaborating with vendors and internal teams to advance model capabilities and safety. Strong Python and cloud experience are required.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization/orchestration, observability, and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in Python software engineering skills
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods; strong unit/integration testing discipline.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and secure coding practices.
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security for AI applications.
• Practical cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting for AI-enabled applications.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug SDK and service integrations.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes.
• Applies knowledge of SDLC tools, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve automation value.
• Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to improve reliability of AI features and services.
• Lead evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on model capabilities, safety, and integration patterns.
• Lead communities of practice to share prompt engineering, evaluation methods, and SDK best practices.
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Build and ship AI-powered features using Bedrock/Foundry/Vertex AI, including prompt design and SDK/REST integrations.
• Implement input/output safety and comprehensive LLM usage logging/monitoring.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Software design

Education

5+ years software engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build trusted market-leading AI-enabled technology products. You will be a core technical contributor driving secure, scalable delivery across multiple business functions.

The role emphasizes leading AI-assisted engineering practices, code quality, and incident analysis while collaborating with vendors and internal teams to advance model capabilities and safety. Strong Python and cloud experience are required.