Senior Associate, AI ML Platform Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Associate, AI ML Platform Engineering role at JPMorgan Chase, focused on building products for MLOps, automated governance, and ML data development. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying GenAI and Agentic AI solutions, including RAG-based systems, chat experiences, and tool-using agents. Responsibilities include engineering production-grade services, building data pipelines, applying MLOps practices, and implementing robust testing and observability for AI services. Requires strong software engineering skills in Java/Python, cloud experience (AWS), and familiarity with LLM application patterns.

What you'd actually do

  1. Works on several new systems including model repository/registry, feature registry, automatic model promotion policy engine, model & GenAI governance tools, data annotation, data preparation and lineage to help accelerate AI/ML in JPMC with the best user experience and sound governance.
  2. Design, develop, and deploy GenAI and Agentic AI solutions that improve automation, decision-making, and user experience across business workflows.
  3. Build LLM/SLM - powered applications including RAG-based systems, summarization/extraction pipelines, chat/coplay experiences, and tool-using agents.
  4. Engineer production-grade services using Java and/or Python (GraphQL/REST/gRPC APIs, microservices, libraries), following secure coding and reliability best practices.
  5. Develop prompt strategies and prompt engineering assets (templates, routing, guardrails), and implement automated evaluation to improve quality over time.

Skills

Required

  • Graduation or master’s degree (or equivalent practical experience) in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field.
  • Hands-on experience building applied AI/ML or GenAI solutions (e.g., RAG, classification, extraction, ranking, summarization, copilots).
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agent Skills and architectures that connect models to tools/data through standardized interfaces.
  • Familiarity with LLM application patterns: embeddings/vector search, prompt orchestration, tool calling/function calling, safety/guardrails, evaluation.
  • Strong software engineering experience delivering production systems; ability to design maintainable architectures and write clean, testable code.
  • Proficiency in Java and/or Python and experience building APIs/services and integrating with data sources and downstream systems.
  • Experience deploying solutions on AWS and cloud-native environments; understanding of security fundamentals and operational excellence.
  • Experience with modern engineering practices: CI/CD, code reviews, unit testing (e.g., pytest/JUnit), and deployment automation.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/ECS) and production monitoring practices.
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively

Nice to have

  • Experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows, tool routing, planning, memory patterns, supervision/fallback strategies).
  • Experience with AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker (or equivalent managed ML/GenAI platforms) and deployment patterns for scalable inference.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks and approaches (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, human-in-the-loop review, red teaming).
  • Experience fine-tuning models (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA/DoRA) and/or working with SLMs, embeddings, and retrieval systems.
  • Experience with developer productivity tooling such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, paired with strong SDLC controls.
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry and operating in regulated environments (auditability, controls, data handling).
  • Exposure to distributed compute/training concepts (e.g., DDP, sharding) and performance/cost optimization.

What the JD emphasized

  • Hands-on experience building applied AI/ML or GenAI solutions
  • Familiarity with LLM application patterns: embeddings/vector search, prompt orchestration, tool calling/function calling, safety/guardrails, evaluation.
  • Experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows, tool routing, planning, memory patterns, supervision/fallback strategies).

Other signals

  • Build LLM/SLM - powered applications including RAG-based systems, summarization/extraction pipelines, chat/coplay experiences, and tool-using agents.
  • Develop prompt strategies and prompt engineering assets (templates, routing, guardrails), and implement automated evaluation to improve quality over time.
  • Apply MLOps practices across the lifecycle: experimentation, versioning, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance for models/prompts/agents.