Senior Engineer, Applied Artificial Intelligence

Role Overview

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will play a central role in integrating AI into our core operations and developing AI-native products. You'll own the full lifecycle of AI initiatives from sitting with business stakeholders to scope and discover opportunities through to hands-on design, development, and deployment of production-grade systems.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for someone who wants to operate independently, translate organizational strategy into concrete technical outcomes, and bring others along with them. You'll be expected to work independently and consider the impact of technology on strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents and agentic systems across Cboe's internal platforms and workflows.

• Own scoping and discovery for AI initiatives — partnering directly with non-technical business stakeholders to understand needs and convert them into well-defined technical solutions.

• Build and enhance Cboe's agentic control plane.

• Apply context engineering principles (prompt design, memory architecture, retrieval strategy) to build reliable, high-performing AI systems.

• Establish and uphold best practices for agent development, evaluation, and production observability.

• Drive architecture and design decisions for agentic systems, owning tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, and risk across multiple teams.

• Design and implement benchmarking and evaluation frameworks to measure and continuously improve AI system performance.

• Translate Cboe's AI strategy into executable, prioritized technical work.

• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across the team, setting the standard for how AI systems are built at Cboe.

• Produce clear technical documentation including scoping artifacts, design specs, and testing criteria.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR Equivalent demonstrated experience

• 7–10+ years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, with increasing seniority

• 3+ years of professional experience in applied AI (building agents, MCP servers, context/harness engineering)

• Proven experience building and deploying AI solutions in production environments, including familiarity with agent frameworks and a clear understanding of what they do and why they matter

• Hands-on experience building tools and integrations for LLM-based systems

• Deep proficiency in context engineering including prompt design, retrieval strategies, and memory/context management

• Demonstrated ability to work directly with non-technical stakeholders to scope AI opportunities and define technical requirements

• Strong programming skills (language agnostic, Python strongly preferred)

• Experience with LLM evaluation, observability, and benchmarking as core engineering practice

• Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, and deliver results without close oversight

• Track record of setting technical standards, leading design/architecture reviews, and mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly the ability to explain complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences

Benefits And Perks

We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:

• Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days
• Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services
• 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire
• Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
• Employee referral bonus program
• Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities

About Cboe Global Markets

We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.