Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Agentic AI, Vice President

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about building the next generation of AI solutions? Join us to lead and mentor a team of talented engineers, drive innovation in generative and agentic AI, and deliver impactful, scalable technology for Risk Technology. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional partners and play a key role in shaping the future of Asset and Wealth Management Risk.

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer – Agentic AI in Risk Technology, you will lead a specialized technical area, driving impact across teams, technologies, and projects. You will leverage your expertise in software engineering and multi-agent system design to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives. You will mentor and guide a team of engineers, foster best practices in ML engineering, and partner with data science, product, and business teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that drive value for the Risk business.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead the deployment and scaling of advanced generative AI, agentic AI, and classical ML solutions for the Risk business.
• Design and execute enterprise-wide, reusable AI/ML frameworks and core infrastructure to accelerate AI solution development.
• Develop multi-agent systems for orchestration, agent-to-agent communication, memory, telemetry, and guardrails.
• Guide research on context and prompt engineering techniques to improve prompt-based model performance, utilizing libraries such as SmartSDK and LangGraph.
• Develop and maintain tools and frameworks for prompt-based agent evaluation, monitoring, and optimization at enterprise scale.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and processing workflows for scalable, efficient data consumption.
• Write secure, high-quality production code and conduct code reviews.
• Partner with Data Science, Product, and Business teams to identify requirements and develop solutions.
• Communicate technical concepts and results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, promoting a culture of excellence and continuous learning.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in machine learning engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience deploying end-to-end pipelines on AWS.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience using LangGraph or SmartSDK for multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Strategic thinker with the ability to drive technical vision for business impact.
• Demonstrated leadership working with engineers, data scientists, and ML practitioners.
• Familiarity with MLOps practices, including CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, automated deployment, and ML pipelines.
• Experience with agentic telemetry and evaluation services.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining user interfaces.

ABOUT US
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

ABOUT THE TEAM
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.