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Sr Lead Software Engineer - AI Agent and Orchestration
full-time•Houston
About this role
Be an integral part of an Agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Digital Client Relationship 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.
You are responsible for designing, building, and operating intelligent agentic systems powered by LLM. Focus on developing robust agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and multi-agent workflows that can reason, plan, use tools, and operate reliably at enterprise scale. Partner closely with platform, product, and domain teams to enable safe, observable, and extensible AI-driven capabilities across the organization.
Job responsibilities
- Develop agent architectures, planning and reasoning workflows, and orchestration patterns
- Design, build, and operate LLM-powered AI agents and multi-agent orchestration frameworks
- Build conversational interfaces and programmatic APIs for interacting with agent orchestrator
- Implement routing, tracing, auditing, and observability, evaluation, testing, and feedback frameworks for agent decisions, tool calls, and outputs
- Build and manage memory and context systems, including retrieval-augmented generation
- Integrate with enterprise platforms (LLMSuite, Fusion, etc.), data sources, and services
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert and actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and agent development frameworks
- Deep understanding of large language models, APIs, and prompt engineering
- Experience with agent architectures, multi-agent systems, and orchestration
- Experience building conversational and programmatic interfaces for AI systems
- Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
- Experience with agent evaluation, testing, tracing, and auditability in production environments
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and governance for AI-driven systems
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate intelligent agentic systems powered by LLM. Develop robust agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and multi-agent workflows.
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets.
We serve millions of customers and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional, and government clients daily, managing assets and investments, offering business advice and strategies, and providing innovative banking solutions and services.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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