Lead Software Engineer (AI Platform) - Vice President

About this role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast-paced and challenging area? This is a unique opportunity for you to work with the Global Technology Applied Research (GTAR) center at JPMorgan Chase & Co. The goal of GTAR is to design and conduct research across multiple frontier technologies, in order to enable novel discoveries and inventions, and to inform and develop next-generation solutions for the firm's clients and businesses.

As an AI Platform Engineer – Vice President at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Technology Applied Research (GTAR) center, you will engineer, operate, and evolve the shared platforms that enable GTAR researchers to develop, evaluate, and mature AI solutions in secure, scalable, firm-approved environments. You will own the cloud and compute foundation for AI research workloads, build reusable platform services and automation, and partner with researchers and enterprise technology teams to make experimentation reproducible, reliable, well-controlled, and ready for downstream integration.

Job responsibilities

• Own the architecture, technical roadmap, and day-to-day engineering of the team’s AI research platform.
• Design and operate secure, scalable cloud and CPU/GPU infrastructure, including clusters, workload scheduling, storage, networking, capacity planning, performance, and cost.
• Build reproducible, self-service research environments and platform automation using standardized container images, GPU software stacks, dependency and artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and orchestration.
• Partner with researchers to translate requirements from LLM, agentic AI, model evaluation, retrieval, inference, and accelerator benchmarking projects into dependable platform capabilities, and prepare research prototypes for downstream integration through packaging, service interfaces, and operational-readiness reviews.
• Assess and onboard new AI infrastructure technologies, cloud servic...