SR Lead Software Engineer - High Performance Computing

AECOM; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading technology team at JPMorgan Chase as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you'll drive technical excellence in high-performance computing and AI/ML applications. You'll lead diverse teams, solving complex challenges and shaping the future of technology products in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive health care coverage

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Qualifications

• 5+ years applied experience in software engineering.
• Advanced knowledge in AI and ML applications.
• Experience with accelerators like GPU or FPGA.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction for software development.
• Builds scalable and efficient inferencing and training pipelines using HPC.
• Develops high-quality production code and reviews the code of others.

Skills

High-Performance Computing

Cloud Native Experience

Programming in Python

C/C++ Programming

Performance Analysis

Parallel Programming

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

NCCL

MPI

Kubernetes

SLURM

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the AI Infrastructure team , you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. You will lead virtual and direct teams of developers, teaching them best practices in high-performance computing (HPC) practices that intersect with AI/ML. Thus, you are collaborative-especially since you will work closely with cross-functional teams comprised of data scientists, business analysts and other engineers. You will infuse the JPMorgan developer community with an appreciation of the impact that HPC can have by delivering software that consistently outperforms other platforms. You will deliver a variety of options to serve our various business needs--sometimes driven by low-latency; other times driven by throughput or low power.

**Job responsibilities**

+ Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors

+ Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

+ Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

+ Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus

+ Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

+ Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies

+ Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

+ Build scalable and efficient inferencing and training pipelines using HPC software techniques and patterns

+ Working closely with business and data science teams, develop easy-to-use systems that serve their needs

+ Using telemetry, create measurable frameworks for deciding amongst hardware and software options

+ Publish and support re-usable patterns to optimize training and inference of ML models on various architectures

+ Support developer community in learning lessons from high-performance computing (HPC) domain

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**

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

+ Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

+ Advanced in one or more programming language(s)

+ Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

+ Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

+ Practical cloud native experience

+ Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

+ Advanced understanding of High-Performance Computing system architectures and network topologies

+ Expertise in at least one accelerator type (e.g., GPU, FPGA) and experience mapping LLMs onto these accelerators

+ Proficiency parallel programming and performance analysis of accelerator-based systems

+ Familiarity with HPC software (e.g., NCCL, MPI) and resource schedulers (e.g., Kubernetes, SLURM)

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**

+ Strong programming skills in Python, scripting, C, C++ with experience in AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch and LangChain

+ Master's Degree in Computer Science (required)

+ 8+ years of experience in high-performance computing software

+ 5+ years of experience with accelerators and deep learning, particularly large language models

+ Experience in large organizations and regulated industries is a plus

+ Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

**Base Pay/Salary**

San Francisco,CA $171,000.00 - $260,000.00 / year; Seattle,WA $171,000.00 - $260,000.00 / year