AI Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end development of AI infrastructure and AI driven applications: from initial proof-of-concept to production deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Collaborate with technologists, traders, quantitative researchers, and data scientists to identify high-impact opportunities for integrating AI and machine learning into technology and business use cases.
• Implement automated systems for continuous training, validation, and monitoring of models, minimizing downtime and ensuring reliability.
• Provide technical leadership in selecting, integrating, and optimizing AI and ML frameworks, libraries, and tools across diverse hardware and software environments.
• Create and maintain feature pipelines, feature stores, and model stores.
• Develop frameworks to enable scalable, reproducible research.
• Proactively troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, conduct root-cause analyses, and implement solutions to optimize GPU or CPU resource usage.

Qualifications

• 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.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $300,000, depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Benefits

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.