AI Platform Engineer – Go/Python, API Gateways & MLOps

DRW; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision insurance

401k with discretionary employer match

HSA/FSAs and other benefits

Job summary

DRW is a diversified trading firm with decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago, building an AI tooling ecosystem. We seek a Platform Engineer to help integrate external cloud AI providers, internal models, and end-user tools into our unified control plane, working with the Team Lead and Senior SWE.

You will configure multi-engine API gateways, migrate tools to a centralized plan, and collaborate with Cloud and Inference teams.

Qualifications

• Backend programming experience in Go and/or Python.
• Experience with API design, integration and platform/cloud engineering concepts.
• Familiarity with API gateways, proxy configuration, or distributed networking.
• Interest in evolving LLM ecosystem and AI tooling.
• Collaborative, write clean, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage multi-engine API gateways with routing rules and fallbacks.
• Migrate and integrate firm-wide tools into a centralized management plane.
• Collaborate with Cloud and Inference teams to manage AI services in landing zones.
• Develop Go and Python code for usage dashboards and alert systems.
• Ensure self-hosted models are registered and routable in AI gateways.

Skills

Go

Python

API design

Cloud engineering

Distributed systems

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago, building an AI tooling ecosystem. We seek a Platform Engineer to help integrate external cloud AI providers, internal models, and end-user tools into our unified control plane, working with the Team Lead and Senior SWE.

You will configure multi-engine API gateways, migrate tools to a centralized plan, and collaborate with Cloud and Inference teams.