Senior AI Engineer

About Us:

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:

DV Trading is building a centralized AI function to govern, standardize, and accelerate firm-wide AI adoption. The Senior AI Engineer defines how the firm builds production agent systems and ships reference implementations that demonstrate the patterns in production.

Job Responsibilities:

- Define firm-wide standards for agent and MCP development - Build reference agent applications for business teams - Design patterns for connecting agents to internal databases, APIs, and knowledge sources - Establish security and governance requirements for AI in a regulated trading environment - Partner with Security on AI-specific controls (data access, audit, threat detection) - Evaluate and adopt infrastructure for agent deployment and observability - Partner with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value use cases

Requirements:

- 5+ years software engineering; strong Python - Production LLM-powered agent systems shipped (not demos) - Experience integrating agents with databases, APIs, and internal data sources - MCP and/or tool-calling experience in production - Security experience in regulated or sensitive-data environments - Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability - Autonomous; strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred:

- Prop trading, hedge fund, or financial services - Firm-wide platform or standards work - Multi-model environments (Claude, GPT, etc.) - Agent evaluation and testing in production

Benefits:

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options

Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance

Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance

Flexible Vacation policy

Retirement plan with employer match

The range below reflects the expected base salary for this position. It represents a good-faith estimate of the base pay we anticipate offering, with actual compensation determined by your experience, education, skills, and performance throughout the interview process. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus (at DV Trading's discretion) and DV Trading's benefits package, including the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range

$200,000 - $300,000 USD