Senior AI Engineering Lead - Platform & LLM Services

JPMorganChase; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Wilmington, DE to lead AI/ML data platform initiatives. You will guide agile teams, build secure production-grade code, and drive architecture decisions across cloud-native AWS services and LLM-enabled applications.

You will mentor engineers, implement retrieval-augmented generation and ensure governance, security, and operational excellence across the SDLC. This role emphasizes collaboration with risk, legal, and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with AI/ML focus.
• Strong Python and ML framework experience.
• Experience deploying LLM-backed services to production.
• Cloud-native experience on AWS or Azure.
• Ability to communicate across product, risk, legal, and compliance teams.
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business and engineering teams and align priorities.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and lead code reviews.
• Drive architecture decisions affecting product design and operations.
• Lead production-grade LLM apps and agentic patterns.
• Design and deliver AWS cloud-native services with scalability.
• Implement RAG solutions with embeddings and semantic search.
• Build reliable APIs with focus on security and performance.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices across teams.

Skills

Python

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Vector storage

LLM deployment

MLOps

AWS/Azure

Security

Collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Serverless

Embeddings tooling

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Wilmington, DE to lead AI/ML data platform initiatives. You will guide agile teams, build secure production-grade code, and drive architecture decisions across cloud-native AWS services and LLM-enabled applications.

You will mentor engineers, implement retrieval-augmented generation and ensure governance, security, and operational excellence across the SDLC. This role emphasizes collaboration with risk, legal, and compliance teams.