Principal Architect: Transformative AI

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Asset & Wealth Management

Principal Architect role focused on designing and delivering production-grade Generative AI and LLM systems, including agentic workflows, for financial services. Requires strong software engineering and ML engineering experience with cloud platforms and various programming languages and frameworks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architects scalable APIs and agentic workflows, enabling automation and efficiency across the firm
  2. Architects and delivers production LLM-based systems for text, image, speech, and video applications
  3. Collaborates closely with ML Engineering, Product Management, and Cloud Engineering to ensure reliability and security
  4. Bridges advanced AI research with robust engineering to build innovative, scalable, production-ready solutions
  5. Drives results with an entrepreneurial mindset in a fast-paced, high-impact environment

Skills

Required

  • software engineering concepts
  • cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
  • containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Java
  • Python
  • Java Spring
  • ORM frameworks
  • Agentic AI frameworks (a2a, langGraph)
  • messaging frameworks
  • unit and automated testing frameworks (BDD, Functional & Performance)
  • databases
  • ML engineering
  • software architecture
  • distributed systems
  • high-throughput, low-latency microservices
  • WebSocket
  • gRPC
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • protocol buffer schema design
  • streaming endpoints
  • load balancing
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability

Nice to have

  • advanced agentic workflows
  • multi-agent coordination
  • stateful task management
  • enterprise event-driven architectures
  • Agent Guardrails
  • Evaluation frameworks
  • communication and presentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • production-grade LLM systems
  • AI at scale
  • advanced AI research with robust engineering
  • architects scalable APIs and agentic workflows
  • architects and delivers production LLM-based systems
  • extensive hands-on experience in software engineering and ML engineering
  • proven track record of shipping production systems
  • Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical processes
  • in-depth expertise in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, AI, ML, distributed systems)
  • high-throughput, low-latency microservices

Other signals

  • production-grade LLM systems
  • AI at scale
  • advanced AI research with robust engineering
  • architects scalable APIs and agentic workflows
  • architects and delivers production LLM-based systems