Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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

What Youll 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 IMCs 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 havent 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: Youll 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 visit Benefits - US IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$180000$200000 USD

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve 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.