AI Engineer [Trading Analytics & Data Engineering]

Engineers And Constructors International

Job Location:

Houston, MS - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 120 - 150

Posted on: 7 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as anAI Engineer Trading Analytics & Data Engineering.This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated May 5 2026 start date and ending on December 31 2026. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.

About the role
Were hiring an AI Engineer with a strong data engineering foundation and excellent communication skillsideally with commodity or financial trading experience. Youll partner with traders and trading analysts to rapidly build AI powered analytics over market pricing and fundamentals data using Databricks and Spark to deliver value at speed.

What youll do:

Design and ship AI driven analytics for front office use (seasonality correlation regression forecasting scenario modelling).
Build reusable and scalable data pipelines in Databricks (PySpark/Spark Delta/Unity Catalog) optimizing cost reliability and performance.
Run statistical/econometric analyses on large datasets (e.g. market & fundamental time series data).
Collaborate directly with traders/analyststranslate ambiguous questions into shippable solutions; communicate insights clearly.
Implement LLM/agentic workflows: prompt engineering LangGraph orchestration MCP integrations tool calling retrieval and guardrails.
Productionize solutions with testing observability versioning and documentation.

What youll bring:

Hands on Databricks Spark expertise (PySpark SQL Delta Unity Catalog).
Proven data engineering skills (ingestion modelling orchestration performance tuning).
Strong statistics/economics/data science fundamentals for market time series.
Experience building LLM solutions (prompting retrieval agent flows; LangGraph MCP) and integrating with trading data/services.
Experience with CI/CD Terraform MLflow/feature stores vector DBs and governance (PII handling data lineage).
Excellent stakeholder skills; able to work on desk with traders/analysts and deliver fast.

Nice to have:

Background in commodity or financial trading.
Familiarity with market microstructure supply demand fundamentals risk management.

Ways of working

Hybrid; high touch collaboration with trading teams.
Bias to prototype fast iterate with users and harden to production.
Maintain operational stability of production pipelines using secure modern CI/CD engineering practices with automated testing quality gates and built in reliability across development security and operations.

Please Note: The ECI Group uses AI-assisted tools in the early stages of application review with all decisions guided by human oversight and fully compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ECI Groups applicable data protection policies and Privacy Notice.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Design and ship AI driven analytics for front office use (seasonality correlation regression forecasting scenario modelling).
Build reusable and scalable data pipelines in Databricks (PySpark/Spark Delta/Unity Catalog) optimizing cost reliability and performance.
Run statistical/econometric analyses on large datasets (e.g. market & fundamental time series data).
Collaborate directly with traders/analyststranslate ambiguous questions into shippable solutions; communicate insights clearly.
Implement LLM/agentic workflows: prompt engineering LangGraph orchestration MCP integrations tool calling retrieval and guardrails.
Productionize solutions with testing observability versioning and documentation.

What youll bring:

Hands on Databricks Spark expertise (PySpark SQL Delta Unity Catalog).
Proven data engineering skills (ingestion modelling orchestration performance tuning).
Strong statistics/economics/data science fundamentals for market time series.
Experience building LLM solutions (prompting retrieval agent flows; LangGraph MCP) and integrating with trading data/services.
Experience with CI/CD Terraform MLflow/feature stores vector DBs and governance (PII handling data lineage).
Excellent stakeholder skills; able to work on desk with traders/analysts and deliver fast.

Nice to have:

Background in commodity or financial trading.
Familiarity with market microstructure supply demand fundamentals risk management.

Ways of working

Hybrid; high touch collaboration with trading teams.
Bias to prototype fast iterate with users and harden to production.
Maintain operational stability of production pipelines using secure modern CI/CD engineering practices with automated testing quality gates and built in reliability across development security and operations.