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Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering

imc

Chicago, USonsite$180k-$200k/yrPosted Sep 26, 2025
Posting intelligenceMay be filled, listed long ago

Skills

langchainpythonjavallm

About the role

IMC is embedding agentic AI directly into the developer workflow for our production-critical systems. As a member of the Agentic AI engineering team, you’ll help build agents, MCP servers, and evaluation loops that make AI-generated code reliable, auditable, and fast to ship. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and platform teams to deliver pragmatic, high-impact AI integrations at scale.

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

Why This Role at IMC

Impact at scale: Your work will help bring AI directly into production developer workflows

Growth: You’ll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI systems while learning from specialists in AI, systems, and developer productivity

Collaboration: Join a team that works closely across engineering disciplines to solve high-value, pragmatic problems

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$180,000 - $200,000 USD

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.

Compensation

This Software Engineer role pays $180k-$200k/yr. Within typical range for software engineer roles in United States.

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