JPMorgan Chase
Senior Lead Software Engineer- Python AI
$176K–$260K
Plano, TX +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- Plano, TX
Columbus, OH
Jersey City, NJ
Wilmington, DE - Experience
- 5+ years of applied engineering experience.
- Education
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of production AI features, applications, and automation across a product line, while setting engineering standards and guiding teams.
What you'll do
- Design and deploy LLM, RAG, and agentic applications with enterprise controls and production-ready reliability, security, and observability.
- Establish AI engineering standards, review architectures, assess lifecycle risks, and evaluate vendors and platform providers.
- Build and review production code, develop automation, and align stakeholders on outcomes and success metrics.
What they ask for
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
- Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered features in production or near-production environments.
- Strong Python proficiency; experience building APIs and services with Django, FastAPI, or similar, and modern UIs with React or similar—or ability to partner closely with frontend teams.
- Experience with secure distributed system design, Responsible AI/model risk, observability and AI monitoring, cloud platforms, and containerized deployments.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI orchestration or agent frameworks, vector search, and RAG systems.
- Familiarity with AI governance, Terraform, CI/CD, and data engineering ecosystems such as Databricks.
Pay
$175,750.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Django, FastAPI, React, AWS, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Terraform
AI focus
Builds and governs production AI applications and workflows, including LLMs, RAG, agents, automation, monitoring, and responsible deployment.
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