CTC Lateral

AI Engineer

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Base Salary

$175k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build agent tooling used by engineers, quants, and traders.
  • Integrate new models, coding agents, and agent harnesses as the ecosystem evolves.
  • Build infrastructure for inference, configuration, integrations, tracing, and access controls.
  • Develop AI tools and interfaces for role-specific workflows across the firm.
  • Improve the performance and reliability of shared services and model inference systems.
  • Prototype agent applications for research, simulation, and trading.
  • Work directly with users to understand workflows and guide product development.

Requirements

  • Experience building software with LLMs and agents, including tools, context, orchestration, and model APIs.
  • Familiarity with coding agents and tradeoffs among models, providers, and harnesses.
  • Proficiency or comfort working in Python, C++, and/or Java.
  • Experience building software used by engineers or end users.
  • Ability to work across application code, developer tooling, infrastructure, and user-facing software.
  • Ability to take ambiguous problems from idea through production.
  • Hands-on experience building personal projects or experiments with this technology.
  • Model evaluation or benchmarking experience is preferred.
  • Inference optimization, fine-tuning, or post-training experience is preferred.
  • Experience with financial markets, trading, quantitative research, market data, simulation, or backtesting is preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $175,000—$225,000 USD plus eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
  • Most teams except Trading follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.
  • Generous paid time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch, healthy snacks, wellness reimbursement, and other employee benefits.

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