JPMorgan Chase
Director of Software Engineering - Agentic Architecture & Protocol Standards
$204K–$285K
Plano, TX +3 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Plano, TX
New York, NY
Wilmington, DE
Columbus, OH - Experience
- 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
- Education
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads engineering strategy, reference architectures, prototypes, and standards work for secure agent identity, delegated authorization, tool interaction, and payment-related agent systems.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and develop secure architectures and implementations for agent identity, delegation, authority, and evidence.
- Evaluate agent and tool protocols through prototypes, interoperability tests, and threat models; contribute proposals and guidance to standards initiatives.
- Lead cross-functional technical delivery, mentor technologists, and connect agent interactions with payment authentication, authorization, and dispute evidence.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
- Deep experience in authorization, identity protocols, distributed systems security, or secure service architecture.
- Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, token security, workload identity, least privilege, and policy enforcement.
- Practical experience engineering delegated-access, service-to-service, tool-integration, or AI-agent systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with MCP, Financial-grade API profiles, sender-constrained tokens, SPIFFE, or workload identity standards.
- Contributions to agentic AI, identity, authorization, open-banking, or payment standards initiatives.
Pay
$204,250.00-$285,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
OAuth 2.0, MCP, Financial-grade API profiles, SPIFFE
AI focus
Engineers and evaluates secure AI-agent systems, including agent identity, delegated authority, tool interaction, and agentic commerce.
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