Principal Software Engineer Executive Director

If you are looking for a game-changing career working for one of the worlds leading financial institutions youve come to the right place.

JP Morgan Chases ambitions for AI/ML are transformational but safety and security are non negotiable. As a Principal Software Engineer within AI Governance Engineering you will design and build platforms and shared services that enable teams to develop deploy and operate AI/ML solutions with compliance and governance seamlessly integrated. Your focus will be to deliver best in class developer tooling that reduces friction and operational toil while raising the firmwide standard for security reliability auditability and responsible AI.

This role is suited to a Senior Engineer who can operate as a technical leader across multiple teamsdefining architecture influencing standards and delivering high impact software that scales.

Job Responsibilities

• Architect and build governance-by-design platforms that embed policy controls approvals and evidence collection into the AI/ML delivery lifecycle (from development to validation to deployment and monitoring)

• Develop reusable services and APIs that enable consistent governance capabilities across diverse AI/ML use cases (e.g. model onboarding registration metadata capture lineage and lifecycle state management)

• Create developer-first tooling (CLI SDKs libraries templates automated checks) that makes compliant workflows the easiest workflows

• Integrate controls into CI/CD pipelines for ML systems including automated validation gates artifact integrity checks and promotion workflows with audit trails

• Design secure-by-default patterns for sensitive data handling and model operations collaborating with security partners to meet firm standards

• Implement observability and monitoring for governance platforms including operational telemetry usage analytics and control effectiveness measurement

• Drive engineering excellence through design reviews reference architectures coding standards performance benchmarking and reliability engineering practices

• Partner with stakeholders across engineering model risk compliance legal privacy and business teams to translate governance requirements into scalable technical solutions

• Mentor and grow engineers providing technical guidance and fostering a culture of quality ownership and continuous improvement

• Contribute to strategic roadmap for AI governance engineering identifying opportunities to reduce toil automate controls and improve time-to-market safely

Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills:

• Professional software engineering experience with ownership of complex production-grade systems

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python Java C Go or Scala

• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and lifecycle fundamentals including model evaluation drift reproducibility and feature pipelines

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems or internal platforms used by multiple teams

• Strong technical communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills:

• Experience delivering systems with auditability traceability and compliance requirements in regulated environments

• Ability to influence architecture decisions and collaborate effectively across teams