AI Engineer

Chicago Trading Company is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making and quantitative trading technology. The AI Engineer will build agent tooling, AI infrastructure, and role-specific interfaces for engineers, quants, and traders, while prototyping applications for research, simulation, and trading. The role also involves improving system performance and reliability and working directly with users to guide product development.

Responsibilities:

• Build agent tooling used by CTC's engineers, quants, and traders
• Bring new models, coding agents, and agent harnesses into CTC as the ecosystem evolves
• Build the common infrastructure needed to support them, including inference, configuration, integrations, tracing, and access controls
• Build AI tools and interfaces for specific roles and workflows across the firm
• Improve the performance and reliability of the systems we run, from shared services to model inference
• Prototype new uses for agents in areas like research, simulation, and trading
• Work directly with users to understand their workflows and guide what we build next