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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment bank Digital & Platform Services, Data Analytics, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
JPMorganChase is hiring top talent to join the growing Commercial & Investment Bank Technology organization within Digital & Platform Services / Data Analytics, building production AI agents on NEO that leverage the firm's scale, data, and full-service advantage to deliver measurable impact across the Commercial & Investment Bank and Payments. As a Senior AI Application Engineer, you'll design, productionize, and operate LLM-powered agents on NEO (the firm's agent runtime PaaS on AWS/Azure), partnering closely with business, product, and engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Job responsibilities - Design and ship production agents on NEO across the federated portfolio, owning them from prototype through production.
- Build retrieval that holds up in production: Graph RAG combining knowledge-graph traversal with vector search, plus chunking, ranking, and grounding strategies that keep answers accurate and auditable.
- Design agent memory: episodic and semantic memory organized as memory nodes, with recall, summarization, and decay policies tuned per use case.
- Own organizational context management - assembling entitlement-, lineage-, and tenant-aware context so each agent reasons over only what it's allowed to see.
- Compose multi-agent workflows using A2A, and integrate tools and data through MCP servers (Bitbucket, Confluence, Databricks, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Splunk).
- Build and run evals: task-level and end-to-end agent evaluations, regression suites, LLM-as-judge, and quality/safety gating before release.
- Deploy and operate solutions on public cloud (AWS and, or Azure) with strong SDLC, security, resiliency, and observability practices.
- Partner with product and business partners across CIB and Payments to turn use cases into shipped, supported agents.
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills - Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience with at least 4 years working on AI/ML solutions.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Strong programming skills in Python, with deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and statistics.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications in production, including tracing, evaluations, and guardrails.
- Deep proficiency with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, micro-VM isolation (e.g., Firecracker, Kata Containers, gVisor), and sidecar architectures, with proven experience designing defense in depth across the stack: network and mTLS, workload identity, fine-grained authorization, runtime isolation for untrusted or adversarial workloads, and application-level guardrails
- Practical RAG experience - retrieval quality, embeddings, and vector stores; Expert knowledge of at least one of: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
Knowledge of data management and data model design; real-time processing using
both SQL (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL stores (e.g., OpenSearch, Redis). - Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills - MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Experience with agent frameworks or runtimes, A2A, or MCP. Agent memory design (memory nodes, episodic/semantic memory) and organizational context management.
- Knowledge graphs and graph databases used for retrieval. Graph RAG a strong plus.
- Understanding of LLM fine-tuning and small language model inference.
- Ability to develop full-stack products using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (e.g., Next.js, Svelte) for agent UIs (AG-UI , NEO UI SDK).
- Experience working in the financial or payments domain at a large institution (Investment Banking, Markets, Securities Services, or adjacent).
- Knowledge of high-performance languages such as Go or Rust
About Us 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
About the Team J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
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