JPMorgan Chase
Senior Lead Software Engineer- Inference Platform Engineer
$176K–$260K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years applied experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
About the job
Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including inference platforms, while guiding engineering practices and AI-assisted software development across teams.
What you'll do
- Architect, deploy, monitor, and optimize cloud platforms and resources for AI/ML performance and cost efficiency.
- Build CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure-as-code for ML deployment and operations; partner with AI teams to translate compute needs into infrastructure.
- Guide engineering teams and promote secure, validated AI-assisted development practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability; experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker, including cluster operations and production troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, Java, or C#; knowledge of cloud delivery and deployment models, cloud architecture, and foundational machine learning concepts.
Nice to have
- Foundational understanding of NVIDIA GPU infrastructure software (e.g., DCGM, BCM, Dynamo Inference); observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana; or ML Ops tooling including MLflow.
- Experience building and scaling high-performance LLM inference platforms using vLLM and GPU/CPU serving optimization.
Pay
USD $175,750.00-$260,000.00 base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Go, Java, C#, Prometheus, Grafana
AI focus
Architect and operate AI/ML and LLM inference infrastructure; apply and govern approved AI-assisted engineering tools, validating outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible use.
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