Associate Software Engineer – Software Defined Networking

Job Description

Were looking for a curious technically grounded engineer ready to grow their career at one of the worlds most influential companies.

As an Associate Software Engineering at JPMorganChase you will contribute to the engineering effort behind a firm-wide software-defined networking platform. You will work across agile teams to build test and deliver trusted market-leading networking technology in a secure stable and scalable way.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong academic or research background in mathematics computer science or distributed systems who is eager to apply rigorous analytical thinking to real-world infrastructure challenges. You will be expected to leverage AI-assisted tooling for research prototyping and code generation and to contribute to the teams culture of technical writing documentation and knowledge sharing.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of core platform components including control plane (OVN) data plane (OVS/DPU) software gateways load balancers and IPAM systems under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Write production-quality code in Go Python or C/C for networking infrastructure with an emphasis on correctness clarity and testability.

• Apply knowledge of distributed algorithms (consensus coordination graph-based routing scheduling) to networking and systems problems.

• Use AI-assisted tooling (e.g. generative AI code assistants LLM-based research tools) to accelerate development prototyping and technical exploration.

• Conduct focused research into emerging networking technologies distributed systems techniques and mathematical approaches relevant to platform design and communicate findings through clear technical writing.

• Produce well-structured technical documentation design proposals and research summaries for internal audiences.

• Participate in code reviews design discussions and agile ceremonies contributing to continuous improvement across the team.

• Collaborate with vendor partners on integration tasks and roadmap alignment.

• Engage with open-source communities and industry forums where appropriate.

• Support the firms culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect.

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• 3 years of experience (including academic research internships or industry) in software engineering systems engineering networking or distributed systems.

• Degree (completed or in progress) in Mathematics Computer Science Computer Engineering or a closely related technical field. Candidates nearing completion of a graduate program with relevant research experience are encouraged to apply.

• Solid grounding in mathematics relevant to distributed systems and networking: graph theory combinatorics optimization probability or formal methods.

• Demonstrated understanding of distributed algorithms and systems concepts (e.g. consensus protocols distributed coordination fault tolerance convergence).

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Go Python C/C or Rust.

• Experience using AI/ML-assisted tooling for code generation research augmentation or rapid prototyping.

• Strong technical writing skills with experience producing documentation design documents research summaries or academic/technical papers.

• Foundational knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP routing switching load balancing).

• Practical experience with modern development practices (CI/CD version control testing infrastructure as code).

• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills

• Graduate degree (MS or PhD completed or nearing completion) in Mathematics Computer Science or a related discipline particularly with a thesis or research focus in distributed systems algorithms or networking.

• Hands-on experience with software-defined networking (SDN) technologies such as OVN OVS or equivalent.

• Exposure to DPU/SmartNIC technologies (NVIDIA BlueField AMD Pensando Intel IPU).

• Familiarity with high-performance networking frameworks (eBPF XDP DPDK).

• Experience with CNI implementations (Cilium Calico Flannel) and Kubernetes networking.

• Understanding of advanced routing protocols (BGP OSPF VXLAN EVPN).

• Published technical writing conference papers or contributions to open-source projects.

• Cloud-native development experience.