Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering
IMC Trading · Chicago, IL · 5 days ago
Engineering$180k–$200k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Do
- Contribute to the platform by implementing agents, MCP servers, and supporting services that propose and apply changes to large codebases
- Assist in developing retrieval systems that give AI agents and developers accurate, up-to-date context from large codebases and design artifacts
- Help measure and improve AI-generated changes by building compile/test/evaluate pipelines (static analysis, style and safety checks, performance gates, code review)
- Apply IMC’s best practices in concurrency, telemetry, configuration hygiene, and performance-sensitive code paths to ensure AI outputs are reliable and idiomatic
- Collaborate with teammates on experiments to evaluate and improve AI-driven workflows
What You Bring
- BS+ in Computer Science (or related) with strong fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems)
- Proficiency in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred)
- Experience contributing to developer-facing or production systems
- Curiosity and eagerness to learn about AI/LLM application patterns, even if you haven’t worked closely with them yet
- Strong communication skills; comfortable working with engineers in a fast, collaborative environment
Nice to Have
- Exposure to AI tools or workflows (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
- Experience with retrieval systems (vector search, embeddings, or hybrid approaches)
- Familiarity with compiler/static analysis or large-scale refactoring tools
- Interest in customizing or fine-tuning open-weight models
- Knowledge of model-serving or evaluation infrastructure
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.