Lead Software Engineer - AI Research

Job Description
The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm's data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company's data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision-making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm's commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the AI Research 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. 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. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, and you will work with AI Researchers across any number of fields including Explainability (XAI), Fairness, Optimization, Synthetic Data, Cryptography and Markets/Trading Research (and many more). Whilst working closely with the researchers, your core deliveries will centre around the technology required to make AIML innovations and research operate at scale within a top tier investment and retail banking businesses.
The AI Research team applies novel AI techniques to the toughest challenges in financial services. We are looking for an experienced developer to help evolve projects from early-stage code into production.
Job responsibilities

• Leverages and integrates the latest Gen AI advances into the firm's workflow in a scalable and secure manner
• Applies AI techniques to accelerate critical technology modernization programs (addressing productivity and privacy issues)
• Integrates these seamlessly into the firm's business systems, withing the constraints of a highly structured and opinionated technology environment
• Creates robust pipelines for repeatable model delivery

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Computer Science concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Exceptional Cloud Engineering skills (both public and private), and a proven track record of navigating a complex technical environment and delivering robust solutions within those constraints
• Up to date understanding of Model Development Lifecycle, and best practices for managing the fast-moving model provisioning environment
• Strong track record of developing high quality, production code in Python
• Advanced understanding of engineering methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Great interpersonal skills and able to interface with data scientists, quantitative researchers and other engineers
• Strong understanding of modern development practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in AI an advantage, interest in AI a must!
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Track record of Big Data specific infrastructure (e.g. Spark)
• Interest / understanding of statistics and optimization techniques
• Experience integrating new tools/libraries into frameworks

About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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 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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.