Lead Software Engineer-AI Foundation Services

Job Description

Join JPMorgan

Chase's Chief Data & Analytics (AIML Data Platforms) team in Jersey City as a Lead Software Engineer building AI foundation services for GenAI and ML at enterprise scale. You'll lead hands‑on delivery of secure, reliable, cloud‑native platform capabilities (Kubernetes/CI/CD/IaC) and partner with application teams to create reusable integrations, reference implementations, and onboarding assets.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the AIML Data Platforms – Chief Data and Analytics 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. In this role you will get to drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply your deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

• Partners with Lines of Business application teams to implement AI Foundation Services capabilities that unblock GenAI/AI use cases, supporting delivery from technical design through build, launch, and early operational support
• Builds and enhances reusable platform services, APIs, SDKs, and libraries that standardize how application teams consume model hosting, inference, and AI/ML managed services
• Translates functional and non-functional application requirements into clear technical designs, engineering tasks, and delivery milestones with support from senior engineers and architects
• Develops secure, stable, and high‑quality production code, and participates in code reviews, debugging, testing, and remediation of defects across AI Foundation Services components
• Creates and maintains reusable engineering assets such as reference implementations, runbooks, test harnesses, baseline configurations, and onboarding guides to accelerate adoption across teams
• Drives team adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI‑assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root‑cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Designs and implements scalable software components using appropriate software design patterns, cloud‑native practices, and platform engineering standards
• Collaborates with cross‑functional teams across product, architecture, security, infrastructure, and application development to resolve technical dependencies and deliver production‑ready capabilities
• Contributes to technical methods, standards, documentation, and implementation patterns within AI Foundation Services, helping improve consistency, reliability, and reuse across delivery teams
• Communicates technical progress, risks, dependencies, and implementation options to engineering managers, product partners, and senior technical stakeholders

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong hands‑on coding experience in one or more languages used for platform services, such as Python, Java, or Go, with experience delivering production‑grade services or APIs
• Experience building shared services, reusable components, or platform capabilities consumed by multiple application or engineering teams
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud‑native delivery practices, including tools such as Terraform, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment workflows
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI‑assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for…