Senior AI Platform Lead Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Data Platforms team in Wilmington, DE. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver trusted, scalable AI services and agentic patterns across enterprise use cases.

You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services on AWS, guide architecture decisions, and ensure secure, observable production systems. Strong Python and MLOps expertise are essential to succeed.

Qualifications

• Formal software engineering training or certification.
• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering production-grade AI/ML platforms.
• Strong Python engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to business and engineering teams by partnering with external teams to align on priorities, unblock delivery, and drive successful engineering outcomes.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and lead code reviews; review, debug, and improve code written by others to raise overall engineering quality.
• Drive architecture and design decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations (including SDLC practices).
• Serve as a subject matter expert in one or more focus areas, helping teams make sound technical trade-offs and resolve complex problems.
• Evaluate and introduce leading-edge technologies where appropriate, influencing peers and decision-makers with clear rationale and risk/benefit analysis.
• Build and operate production-grade LLM applications, including agentic patterns and tool integrations for enterprise use cases.
• Design and deliver cloud-native services on AWS using containers and serverless architectures, with strong attention to scalability and operational resilience.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, including embeddings, semantic search, and practical context engineering to improve answer quality and control.
• Build reliable service APIs and integrations with a focus on security, performance, and maintainability.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Vector storage

LLM-backed services

Agent frameworks

CI/CD

MLOps

AWS

Architecture leadership

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Data Platforms team in Wilmington, DE. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver trusted, scalable AI services and agentic patterns across enterprise use cases.

You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services on AWS, guide architecture decisions, and ensure secure, observable production systems. Strong Python and MLOps expertise are essential to succeed.