AI Engineering Director

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

AI Engineering Director to lead a team developing horizontal LLM-based systems and agentic AI platforms for enterprise use cases. Responsibilities include designing and building production-grade AI systems, architecting retrieval patterns, engineering cloud-native platforms on AWS, optimizing AI systems, building APIs, and establishing evaluation/observability frameworks. Requires PhD or deep experience with LLMs/Agents, training/deploying models, and leading AI teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable LLM-based systems and agentic AI platforms for enterprise use cases.
  2. Design and build production-grade AI systems, including agents, harnesses, skills, memory architectures, guardrails, and tool-use workflows.
  3. Architect and implement retrieval and context-engineering patterns such as embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management.
  4. Engineer cloud-native AI platforms on AWS using ECS, EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, containerized workloads, and DynamoDB-backed distributed architectures.
  5. Establish evaluation, experimentation, regression, and observability frameworks to continuously improve AI system quality, reliability, and agent behavior.

Skills

Required

  • PhD or deep experience using LLMs and Agents to develop scalable applications, or experience in a top commercial AI research lab.
  • Strong understanding of AI fundamentals and practical experience with data analysis and experimental design.
  • Recent hands-on experience training and deploying models and pipelines.
  • Familiarity with distributed computing patterns for training, serving, and persistence of state.
  • Experience building and leading high-performing AI teams.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Ability to influence key decision makers with compelling technical arguments.

Nice to have

  • Experience with enterprise-scale AI platform development.
  • Knowledge of industry-standard AI evaluation and observability frameworks.
  • Expertise in cloud-native architectures and container orchestration.
  • Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and leadership.
  • Familiarity with MCP protocols and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Advanced skills in optimizing AI systems for performance and cost.
  • Demonstrated commitment to fostering an inclusive and innovative team culture.

What the JD emphasized

  • LLM-based systems
  • agentic AI platforms
  • production-grade AI systems
  • evaluation, experimentation, regression, and observability frameworks

Other signals

  • LLM-based systems
  • agentic AI platforms
  • production-grade AI systems
  • cloud-native AI platforms
  • evaluation, experimentation, regression, and observability frameworks