Senior AI Engineer

About Us:

Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago theDV 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 Senior AI Engineer defines how the firm builds production agent systems and ships referenceimplementations 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

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