
AI Engineer
CTC Lateral1 day ago
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.