Agentic AI Engineer for Trading & Finance

Vitol; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Paid Vacation

401k with company contributions

Life insurance

Short-term & Long-term disability

Job summary

Vitol is seeking an AI Engineer to join our AI team in Houston. You will build agentic AI workflows, develop AI Skills and MCPs, and work directly with end-users to translate business needs into deployed LLM-based automation solutions.

You will collaborate with traders, operations, and support to identify opportunities, design prototypes, and push production-ready AI capabilities in a fast-paced commodities trading environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional experience in software, data, or AI engineering.
• Fluency in Python with clean, modular code and good engineering practices.
• Familiarity with AI/LLMs and prompting; hands-on experience in agentic patterns (tool use, function calling, MCP).
• Familiarity with Git and version-control workflows.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Experience with modern full-stack development and engaging non-technical end-users.
• Clear communicator who asks good questions and learns quickly across domains.
• Curiosity about emerging AI developments and commodities markets.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with end-users across trading, operations, and support to identify automation opportunities and develop LLM-based solutions tailored to workflows.
• Design, prototype, and iterate on agentic AI workflows that solve real business problems.
• Develop production-ready prompts, AI Skills, and MCPs.
• Engage regularly with stakeholders to gather feedback and refine solutions.
• Translate business problems into clear technical requirements, solution designs, and delivery plans to build, integrate, and deploy solutions.
• Contribute to the team's knowledge base and document work clearly.

Skills

Python

LLMs/prompting

Agentic patterns/MCP

Git

Docker

Cloud platforms

End-user engagement

Communication

Curiosity about AI

Commodities market knowledge

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Git

Docker

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Vitol is seeking an AI Engineer to join our AI team in Houston. You will build agentic AI workflows, develop AI Skills and MCPs, and work directly with end-users to translate business needs into deployed LLM-based automation solutions.

You will collaborate with traders, operations, and support to identify opportunities, design prototypes, and push production-ready AI capabilities in a fast-paced commodities trading environment.