Lead Software Engineer - AI, Python/Java
JPMorgan Chase · Plano, TX
$152,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Plano, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead engineering role focused on building an AI-driven observability and automation platform that spans multiple cloud environments. The work centers on ingesting and correlating telemetry data, developing LLM and machine learning models for anomaly detection and predictive health monitoring, and creating closed-loop automation that can remediate infrastructure failures without human intervention. Suits engineers with deep multi-cloud, ML integration, and large-scale data pipeline experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 380 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 290–600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Lead Software Engineer' maps to Senior in the seniority bands — it signals ownership of a workstream but not org-wide Staff/Principal scope; the 5+ years gate and project scope confirm Senior.
The role sits at the intersection of software engineering and AI/ML (LLM deployment, anomaly detection, forecasting); 15-1252 Software Developers is the primary classification because the core deliverable is building and shipping a platform, with 15-2051 Data Scientists as a plausible runner-up given the ML modeling emphasis.
Multi-cloud expertise across all three hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) is listed as a single combined requirement under required qualifications; each is emitted as a separate must-have skill since the JD treats them as a combined stack, not interchangeable alternatives.
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Dynatrace are listed together as examples of 'enterprise observability stacks'; OpenTelemetry is emitted as primary with the others as alternatives since the JD frames them as equivalent options.
ServiceNow and Jira Service Management are listed as interchangeable ticketing system integration targets; emitted as one skill with the other as an alternative.
React and RAG/agentic AI experience appear under Preferred qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The degree requirement states 'formal training or certification on software engineering concepts' — no specific degree is mandated and equivalent experience is implied, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Salary quoted for Jersey City, NJ specifically.
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