AI Engineer

Job Description

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is seeking an AI Engineer to join its collaborative multi-asset trading team in Chicago. The AI Engineer will play a crucial role in high-impact machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that are central to DRW's business strategy. The candidate will build critical infrastructure and tooling that leverages AI and ML technology to enhance productivity, efficiency, and discover innovative paths to challenging business and technology problems.

Role involves:

• Driving end-to-end development of AI infrastructure and AI driven applications.
• Collaborating with technologists, traders, quantitative researchers, and data scientists.
• Implementing automated systems for continuous training, validation, and monitoring of models.
• Providing technical leadership in selecting, integrating, and optimizing AI and ML frameworks.
• Creating and maintaining feature pipelines, feature stores, and model stores.
• Developing frameworks to enable scalable, reproducible research.
• Proactively troubleshooting performance bottlenecks.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working with machine learning and artificial intelligence technology.
• Strong understanding of core machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts.
• Excellent programming skills in Python.
• Demonstrated experience in building, validating, deploying, monitoring, and updating production ML and AI models.
• Hands-on experience with MLOps and AIOps infrastructure and tooling.
• Proficient in problem-solving and analytical reasoning.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, TensorRT, or ONNX.
• Experience with Large Language Models, including RAG and fine-tuning techniques.
• Familiarity with compute infrastructure necessary to support operating AI and ML technology.

DRW offers:

• A comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance.
• 401k (with discretionary employer match).
• Short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.