Optiver
AI Engineer
$200K
Chicago, Illinois, United States +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 22, 2025
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
About the job
Designs, builds, deploys, and operates production AI systems that automate workflows, support decision-making, and improve engineering across the firm.
What you'll do
- Build AI products and platforms, including agent platforms, assistants, code review harnesses, evaluation frameworks, and research pipelines.
- Evaluate models and architectures; develop metrics, evaluation, and observability to assess quality, safety, and production readiness.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to turn business needs into scalable solutions and continuously operate and improve production systems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field.
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive production experience developing applications in Python.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating production LLM applications, including model evaluation, prompt engineering, tool calling, context management, and agent orchestration.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks and integrating AI systems with external tools, APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and modern AI application frameworks.
Pay
$200,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI focus
Develops and operates production AI and LLM applications, agents, assistants, evaluation systems, and AI-assisted workflows.
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