Lead Software Engineer - AI/ML - AI Agent Platform
Company: JPMC
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-22
About this role
Help shape how teams across the firm build AI agents. You will lead engineering for a flagship, high-visibility AI Agent Platform—the SDK, orchestration frameworks, and reusable components that power agentic AI experiences across the organization. Beyond any single chat experience, you will own the foundational tooling that lets teams compose agents—conversational, voice, and document-extraction—ground them in enterprise data, give them durable agentic memory, and continuously improve accuracy on hard capabilities like NL2SQL and RAG. You will raise delivery standards, turn complex problems into reliable production systems, and set the quality bar for infrastructure that many teams and thousands of users depend on. Join a team where strong engineering, thoughtful collaboration, and continuous learning are core to how we operate.
As Lead Software Engineer – AI Agent Platform at JPMorganChase within Enterprise Technology, AI and Machine Learning & Data Platforms, you will lead the technical design and delivery of the SDK and platform capabilities that enable large-language-model-powered agents at scale. You will own the building blocks agent orchestration, tool/function calling, retrieval and grounding, voice interaction, document extraction, and agentic memory and drive measurable, iterative improvement ("hill-climbing") of capabilities such as NL2SQL and RAG. You will translate high-impact problems into production-grade solutions, from discovery and design through deployment and ongoing operations, while partnering closely with product and stakeholder groups to deliver measurable outcomes.
## Job responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the AI Agent Platform SDK and frameworks—from problem framing and technical design through production deployment, scaling, and monitoring—that engineering teams use to build, evaluate, and operate AI agents.
- Own core platform services and reusable building blocks: agent orchestration, tool/function calling, retriev...