JOB DESCRIPTION
If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.
JP Morgan Chase's 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 teams—defining architecture, influencing standards, and delivering high impact software that scales.
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
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:
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
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
