Senior Lead AI Platform Engineer | Python & Cloud

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive end-to-end delivery on secure, scalable platform services.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python and hands-on architectural leadership across ML workflows, data transformation, and model serving, with a focus on reusable APIs/SDKs and enterprise AI practices. You will partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deliver measurable outcomes, ensure reliability, and automate IaC-driven

Qualifications

• 5+ years applied experience in software engineering and distributed systems.
• Strong Python expertise with API/SDK development experience.
• Experience delivering platforms involving Generative AI and MLOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a hands-on technical leader, contributing production code (Python) and end-to-end delivery from design through production operations.
• Leads system and platform architecture for components supporting end-to-end ML workflows, including data transformation patterns and model serving integration.
• Designs and develops AI capabilities that analyze workloads and generate optimization recommendations for production readiness.
• Builds and maintains reusable APIs/SDKs and reference implementations for platform adoption.
• Partners with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to clarify requirements and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Ensures platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency with SLOs and proactive monitoring.
• Automates infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and CI/CD pipelines for platform services using IaC.
• Drives adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices and establishes validation standards (correctness, performance, security).
• Produces architecture and design artifacts aligned with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Mentors engineers through coaching, reviews, and pairing to foster engineering excellence.
• Contributes to communities of practice exploring new technologies.

Skills

Python

APIs/SDKs

AWS

Databricks

Terraform

CI/CD

Distributed systems

LLM orchestration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Plano, TX seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive end-to-end delivery on secure, scalable platform services.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python and hands-on architectural leadership across ML workflows, data transformation, and model serving, with a focus on reusable APIs/SDKs and enterprise AI practices. You will partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deliver measurable outcomes, ensure reliability, and automate IaC-driven