Lead AI & Automation Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Lead Software Engineer - AI and Automation to design, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, scalable way.

You will own the full software lifecycle for AI initiatives and drive observability, security, and cross-team collaboration in an agile environment. Join a team that delivers enterprise-grade automation, promotes responsible AI practices, and mentors engineers while maintaining high standards for code quality and

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience leading AI-assisted development tools and ensuring correct, secure outputs.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
• Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes.
• Proven technical leadership as a senior IC.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• 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.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Owns the full software lifecycle for multiple automation/AI initiatives: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
• Develops services and workflows that integrate with infrastructure platforms and operational tooling (APIs, events, job runners, control planes)
• Engineers agentic AI solutions that safely automate tasks (tool use, workflow execution, validation, guardrails, fallbacks)
• Defines and implement observability (metrics, logs, traces), SLOs, alerting, and incident playbook
• Acts as a technical advisor across the team: architecture reviews, design decisions, and tradeoff discussions

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Lead Software Engineer - AI and Automation to design, build, and deliver trusted technology products in a secure, scalable way.

You will own the full software lifecycle for AI initiatives and drive observability, security, and cross-team collaboration in an agile environment. Join a team that delivers enterprise-grade automation, promotes responsible AI practices, and mentors engineers while maintaining high standards for code quality and