Principal Software Engineer, Core AI Platform

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• We require formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, along with 10+ years of applied experience.
• We need strong hands-on Python coding experience and a track record of delivering production-grade services.
• We value demonstrated experience leading the effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, including setting expectations for validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• We expect a strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resilience and security considerations.
• We need hands-on experience with system design, automated testing, debugging, and maintaining operational stability in production software.
• We require experience implementing observability, logging, metrics, alerts, Service Level Objectives, incident response, and root-cause analysis for live services.
• We value working knowledge of software application development and technical processes, with depth in areas such as cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, machine learning platforms, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
• We need the ability to translate technical requirements into executable engineering tasks, manage dependencies, and deliver milestones in partnership with product and application teams.
• We require strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, issues, and risks to engineers and stakeholders.
• Preferred: proven ability to manage AI infrastructure on cloud platforms, including deployment, scaling, monitoring, and workload optimization.
• Preferred: experience creating reusable golden-path assets such as templates, reference implementations, SDKs, automated tests, onboarding guides, and deployment patterns.
• Preferred: experience developing generative AI applications or AI agents, or implementing AI-assisted operations with appropriate guardrails.

• We will architect and design solutions that improve the reliability and scalability of AI/ML platforms and applications to support rapidly growing demand.
• We will build and refine reusable platform services, APIs, SDKs, agents, skills, and libraries that standardize how application teams use model hosting, inference, and managed AI/ML services.
• We will partner with AI infrastructure, training, inference, and architecture teams to deliver AI Foundation Services capabilities that enable AI use cases from design through build, launch, and early support.
• We will own and evolve non-functional requirements and develop tooling for observability, resilience, security controls, infrastructure management, and cost optimization.
• We will establish and apply standards and reference architectures for reliability, observability, automation, and operational readiness across services.
• We will work with product and platform engineering teams to define and achieve service reliability targets, including performance, availability, and recoverability.
• We will participate in on-call rotations, investigate and resolve complex production incidents, and identify systemic issues with durable fixes.
• We will mentor engineers and raise the standard for engineering quality, documentation, and operational discipline.

• AI
• AI Agents
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Python
• Security

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We are JPMorgan Chase, one of the worlds leading financial institutions, and we are collaborating with hackajob to find exceptional professionals for this Principal Engineer role on our Core AI Infrastructure Platform team. You will help shape the shared ecosystem that unifies our training and inference pipelines across hybrid-cloud and Neo-cloud environments, enabling thousands of engineers to safely and efficiently deploy advanced AI models into production. We offer a competitive total rewards package, with base pay based on role, experience, skill set, and location, and eligible roles may also include commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation. Our benefits may include comprehensive health care, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching, and more. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations. You will join our Global Technology Infrastructure group, a stable, resilient, and secure environment where innovation and business focus come together. This role is part of our High Risk Roles program and is subject to enhanced pre-hire screening, including criminal and credit background checks where permitted by law, before employment or assignment begins.

last updated 40 week of 2026