AI Engineer for Trading Desk: GenAI Tools for Traders

Cedar Peak Partners

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid vacation

401(k) with company contributions

Life and disability coverage

Job summary

Cedar Peak Partners in Houston is seeking an experienced AI/Software Engineer to design and ship agentic tools for traders, analysts and operations, extending the firm's GenAI platform with connectors to trading systems and market data. You will work with commercial teams on prototypes that move to production, explain model capabilities to traders and management, and help decide what to build next.

5+ years in software/AI, fluent Python, and GenAI experience are required.

Qualifications

5+ years hands-on in software engineering, AI engineering, ML or data science.
Fluent Python with modular code, tests, version control and reviews.
Shipped GenAI work: prompting, RAG, tool use, agentic workflows; at least one orchestration framework (LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar).
Clear with both engineers and traders, comfortable working independently.

Responsibilities

Design and ship agentic tools for traders, analysts and operations.
Extend the firm's GenAI platform with connectors to trading systems and market data.
Build LLM/RAG solutions for pricing, supply/demand, and trade flows.
Explain model capabilities and limitations to traders and management.