Sr Principal Software Engineer - Applied AI Engineering

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Principal Software Engineer focused on operationalizing AI-powered solutions within the SDLC and PDLC for Commercial and Investment Bank Payments Technology. The role involves leading the execution of an AI-native SDLC/PDLC model, operationalizing agentic patterns and toolchains, ensuring responsible AI practices, and driving adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across a matrixed organization. Key responsibilities include translating engineering workflows into AI capabilities, managing multiple technical areas, and interfacing with senior leaders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the execution of an AI-native SDLC and PDLC model across architecture, coding, security, testing, release, and observability phases.
  2. Operationalize agentic patterns and toolchains, including LLM orchestration, skills, context engineering, and MCP-based integrations.
  3. Ensure responsible AI practices in production: guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and auditable workflows.
  4. Partner with App Dev leaders and platform owners to identify high-impact use cases, validate value, and scale production adoption.
  5. Translate engineering workflows into AI-enabled production capabilities (assistive to autonomous) that materially reduce developer toil.

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
  • Deep expertise in AI/LLMs and their application to software engineering workflows (coding, design, security, testing, release).
  • Hands-on experience with agentic systems, tool/skill orchestration, and integration patterns (e.g., MCP, A2A, function/tool calling).
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional engineering delivery amid ambiguity, roadmap definition, backlog, dependency management, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Strong communicator with executive-level stakeholder management, able to translate between engineering depth and business outcomes.
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment), including defining governance (human-in-the-loop decisioning, quality gates), measurement frameworks, and secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs across teams.
  • Demonstrated prior experience influencing across highly matrixed, complex organizations and delivering value at scale
  • Experience leading complex projects supporting system design, testing, and operational stability
  • Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders on safe adoption, portfolio governance, and reuse-first strategies.
  • Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • Experience working at code level
  • Experience with on-prem , cloud-native ecosystems and AWS services (e.g., EKS, Glue, S3, etc.,)
  • Familiarity with modern data architectures and sharing patterns , data contracts/entitlements, and cost optimization.
  • Experience with secure SDLC practices and developer security tooling and vulnerability management metrics.
  • API-first production design and integration patterns; strong analytics and experimentation discipline.

What the JD emphasized

  • Deep expertise in AI/LLMs and their application to software engineering workflows
  • Hands-on experience with agentic systems, tool/skill orchestration, and integration patterns
  • Experience leading multi-organization adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering operating models
  • Deep understanding of responsible AI risk, controls, and resiliency/security expectations at scale

Other signals

  • AI-native SDLC and PDLC model
  • Operationalize agentic patterns and toolchains
  • Responsible AI practices in production
  • Translate engineering workflows into AI-enabled production capabilities
  • Drive alignment with GT/LOB stakeholders on control design, security approvals, platform standards, and rollout approach