Principal Software Engineer, Core AI Platform - Seattle

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

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, plus 10 or more years of applied experience.
• Strong hands-on Python coding experience, including delivering production-grade services.
• Experience leading the effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools for coding, code review, test acceleration, or troubleshooting, and setting expectations for validating outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resilience and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption.
• Practical experience with system design, automated testing, debugging, and operational stability for production software.
• Experience implementing observability, logging, metrics, alerts, Service Level Objectives, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production services.
• Working knowledge of software application development and technical processes, with depth in one or more areas such as cloud platforms, AI, machine learning platforms, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into executable engineering tasks, manage dependencies, and deliver to milestones in partnership with product and application teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, issues, and risks to engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Preferred: Experience managing AI infrastructure on cloud platforms, including deploying, scaling, monitoring, and optimizing machine learning workloads.
• 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, and/or implementing AI-assisted operations with appropriate guardrails.
• This is identified as a High Risk Role. Enhanced pre-hire screening, including criminal and credit background checks where permitted by law, must be successfully completed before employment or assignment begins.

• Architect and design solutions that improve the reliability and scalability of AI/ML platforms and applications as demand grows.
• Build and improve reusable platform services, APIs, SDKs, agents, skills, and libraries that standardize how application teams use model hosting, inference, and managed AI/ML services.
• Partner with AI infrastructure training, inference, and architecture teams to deliver AI Foundation Services that enable AI use cases, from technical design through build, launch, and initial operational support.
• Own and evolve non-functional requirements, and develop or enhance tooling for observability, resilience, security controls, infrastructure management, and cost optimization.
• Establish and uphold standards and reference architectures for reliability, observability, automation, and operational readiness across services.
• Work with product and platform engineering teams to define and meet service reliability targets for performance, availability, and recoverability.
• Take part in on-call rotations, investigate and resolve complex production issues, identify systemic gaps, and drive lasting remediation.
• Mentor and guide engineers while raising expectations for engineering quality, documentation, and operational rigor.

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

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect professionals with this Principal Engineer opportunity at J.P. Morgan Chase, on our Core AI Infrastructure Platform team. In this role, you will help unify training and inference pipelines across hybrid-cloud and Neo-cloud environments, enabling engineers to deploy AI models safely and efficiently at scale. We are one of the worlds oldest financial institutions, serving consumers, businesses, and prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients across a broad range of financial services. Our Global Technology Infrastructure group develops high-quality products and solutions in a stable, resilient, and secure operating environment. We offer competitive total rewards, with compensation based on role, experience, skills, and location, along with eligible incentive compensation and benefits that may include health care, wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees.

last updated 42 week of 2026