AI Engineer: Agent Tools for Trading Systems

Chicago Trading Company; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off

Insurance coverage

Free breakfast and lunch

Parental leave

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is seeking engineers to build agent tooling and AI interfaces that power our traders and researchers. You will bring models, agents, and harnesses into a growing ecosystem, while developing shared infrastructure for inference, configuration, integrations, tracing and access controls.

You will work across Python, C++, or Java, with a focus on delivering end-user tooling and production-ready solutions that scale with the firm’s needs.

Qualifications

• Experience building software with LLMs and agents, including tools, context, orchestration, and model APIs.
• Familiarity with coding agents and tradeoffs between models, providers, and harnesses.
• Comfortable working in Python, C++, and/or Java.
• Experience building software used by other engineers or end users.
• Cross-functional work across code, tooling, infra, and user-facing software.

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.

Skills

LLM/agents experience

Coding agents

Python

C++

Java

End-user tooling

Ambiguity to production

Hands-on personal projects

Tools

Python tooling

Model APIs

Job description

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is seeking engineers to build agent tooling and AI interfaces that power our traders and researchers. You will bring models, agents, and harnesses into a growing ecosystem, while developing shared infrastructure for inference, configuration, integrations, tracing and access controls.

You will work across Python, C++, or Java, with a focus on delivering end-user tooling and production-ready solutions that scale with the firm’s needs.