AI Specialist

Rothera; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Rothera, in Chicago, seeks an AI Specialist to own the enterprise AI strategy and secure, compliant implementation across departments.

You will bridge cutting-edge AI with institutional-grade security in a financial services setting, ensuring zero enterprise data leaks into external training sets and driving adoption across software engineering, product, accounting, legal, and HR.

Qualifications

• 5+ years implementing AI tools and workflows in teams.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock and Claude/Gemini integrations.
• Knowledge of MCP, RAG pipelines, vector stores, and agent design.
• Familiarity with zero-trust security and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and maintain the company AI adoption roadmap with security focus.
• Enforce zero-data-retention and data isolation across AI integrations.
• Implement IAM, RBAC, and audit logging for model endpoints.
• Architect secure enterprise AI integrations on cloud platforms.
• Evaluate MCP for connecting frontier models to internal tools and data.
• Coach teams on AI tooling and develop custom GPT agents and prompts.

Skills

SRE Experience

Cyber Security

Cloud Infrastructure

Software Engineering

AWS Bedrock

Claude API

Gemini

Vertex AI

MCP

RAG pipelines

Zero-trust architectures

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Claude API

Gemini

Vertex AI

Vector stores

Job description

Building markets for the new trading frontier.

Bringing the future into focus.

Rothera is building the premier prediction market in partnership with Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group.

By empowering traders to take positions on the events that shape our world Rothera's platform harnesses the scale and power of financial markets to produce timely, unique, and effective information discovery for leaders and decision makers to ask and answer their most important questions.

Rothera operates at the frontier, generating market-driven forecasts that turn intuition into insight.

About The Role

We are seeking an AI Specialist to own and execute our enterprise-wide AI strategy and tactics.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI capabilities and institutional-grade security in a financial services setting. Our organization is explicitly pro-AI: adopting AI and embedding it into daily workflows is a formal corporate KPI across every department—from software engineering and product management to accounting, legal, and HR. You will serve as the core catalyst enabling staff to safely maximize their output while ensuring zero enterprise data leaks into external training sets.

What you'll do

• Strategic Governance & Security Controls
• AI Strategy & Roadmap: Formulate and maintain the company's AI adoption roadmap, continuously evaluating the performance, cost, and security trade-offs of frontier models (e.g., Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI) and specialized financial LLMs.
• Strict Data Isolation: Enforce zero-data-retention and data isolation protocols across all AI integrations, guaranteeing that company data is never used for external model training.
• Access Control & Auditing: Work with security engineering to implement centralized identity and access management (IAM), credential management, role-based access control (RBAC), and full audit logging for model endpoints.
• Architecture & Infrastructure
• Managed Cloud Solutions: Architect, deploy, and maintain secure enterprise AI integrations leveraging cloud-based platforms such as, for example, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, or Azure OpenAI.
• MCP & Agent Frameworks: Evaluate, standardise, and deploy protocol architectures like Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect frontier models with internal databases, tools, and enterprise applications.
• Heuristics & Optimization: Establish cost/performance heuristics (model routing, prompt caching, token budgets) and embed them into user interfaces so staff naturally leverage the most effective model for each task.
• Enterprise-Wide Upskilling & Enablement
• Cross-Functional Enablement: Serve as the hands-on AI advisor for all teams—coaching developers using AI for code generation/testing, accounting teams automating month-end closeouts, legal teams conducting contract reviews, and marketing staff generating copy and presentations.
• Custom Agents & Tooling: Assist staff across all functional units in building, deploying, and maintaining custom GPTs/agents, workflows, and prompts tailored to specific domain tasks.
• Training Programs: Design and execute structured training curricula, bootcamps, and office hours to elevate AI literacy and practical competency across the entire headcount.

What you'll bring

• Production & Corporate AI Track Record: Demonstrated experience successfully implementing, operationalizing, and driving adoption of AI tools and LLM-powered workflows within a professional, team-based environment—moving beyond personal usage to deliver measurable productivity gains, custom agentic systems, or automated workflows at scale across cross-functional teams.
• Core Experience: 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cyber Security, Cloud Infrastructure, or Software Engineering.
• Cloud & Model Ecosystem: Deep hands‑on experience with AWS Bedrock (or equivalent cloud managed services) and direct experience working with Claude (Anthropic API) and Gemini (Google AI Studio/Vertex).
• Protocols & Architecture: Strong technical command of Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, vector stores, and agentic framework design.
• Regulatory & Financial Acumen: Familiarity with data security standards, zero‑trust architectures, and compliance considerations within a CFTC‑, SEC‑, or FINRA‑regulated financial services firm.
• Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to translate complex technical/AI concepts for non-technical team members and collaborate seamlessly across engineering and corporate functions.

Benefits & Compensation

This position has a base salary of $125,000-$150,000 per year, plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus program.

Rothera is dedicated to advancing the careers and personal wellbeing of our team members. We are continuously exploring ways to support our employees holistically, including a 401(k) plan with employer match, health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and eligible dependents, paid time off, and much more.

Why you should join the mission

If you want a critical role in a path-breaking company, you belong here.

Rothera values initiative from individuals of all backgrounds. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

This is a full-time, in-person hybrid position and is not available for visa sponsorship.