Senior AI Platform Lead — LLM & Cloud-Native Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Fairfax (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Data Platforms team. You will lead the design and delivery of agentic AI platforms and LLM-enabled services for enterprise use, building cloud-native solutions on AWS with strong observability and governance.

You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable, production-grade systems. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with risk/compliance, and delivering high-quality

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction 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

Agent memory design

Long-running agents

LLM production

MLOps

AWS

Azure

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Data Platforms team. You will lead the design and delivery of agentic AI platforms and LLM-enabled services for enterprise use, building cloud-native solutions on AWS with strong observability and governance.

You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive secure, scalable, production-grade systems. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, collaboration with risk/compliance, and delivering high-quality