Lead Software Engineer - High Performance Computing

Lead Software Engineer

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the AI Acceleration team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s).
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Advanced understanding of High-Performance Computing system architectures and network topologies.
• Expertise in at least one accelerator type (e.g., GPU, FPGA) and experience mapping LLMs onto these accelerators.
• Proficiency parallel programming and performance analysis of accelerator-based systems.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Strong programming skills in Python, scripting, C, C++ with experience in AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch and LangChain.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience in high-performance computing software.
• 3+ years of experience with accelerators and deep learning, particularly large language models.
• Experience in large organizations and regulated industries is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment.
• Familiarity with HPC software (e.g., NCCL, MPI) and resource schedulers (e.g., Kubernetes, SLURM).

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.

Base Pay/Salary Jersey City, NJ $152,000.00 - $215,000.00 / year; Seattle, WA $152,000.00 - $215,000.00 / year