Optiver
AI Engineer
$200K
New York, New York +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive production experience developing applications in Python.
- 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 AI workflows; create metrics, benchmarks, and observability to assess quality, safety, and production readiness.
- Partner with business and technical teams to turn ambiguous problems into reliable, scalable AI solutions and continuously improve them in production.
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
Build and operate production AI systems, including LLM applications, agent platforms, AI assistants, code review and evaluation tools, and agentic research pipelines; evaluate models and workflows and measure quality, safety, and performance.
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