Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering

IMC Trading; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking an Agentic AI engineer to help embed AI into production-critical developer workflows in Illinois. You’ll build agents, MCP servers, and evaluation loops to ensure AI-generated code is reliable, auditable, and fast to ship.

You will collaborate with engineers and platform teams to implement changes across large codebases, develop retrieval systems for up-to-date context, and create pipelines to measure AI-generated changes.

Qualifications

• BS+ in Computer Science (or related) with strong fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems).
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred).
• Experience contributing to developer-facing or production systems.
• Curiosity about AI/LLM application patterns.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the platform by implementing agents, MCP servers, and supporting services that propose and apply changes to large codebases.
• Assist in developing retrieval systems that give AI agents and developers accurate, up-to-date context from large codebases and design artifacts.
• Help measure and improve AI-generated changes by building compile/test/evaluate pipelines (static analysis, style and safety checks, performance gates, code review).
• Apply IMC’s best practices in concurrency, telemetry, configuration hygiene, and performance-sensitive code paths to ensure AI outputs are reliable and idiomatic.
• Collaborate with teammates on experiments to evaluate and improve AI-driven workflows.

Skills

BS in CS

5+ years software engineering

Java or Python

Production systems

AI/LLM curiosity

Strong communication

Education

BS+ in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Python

Job description

IMC is embedding agentic AI directly into the developer workflow for our production-critical systems. As a member of the Agentic AI engineering team, you’ll help build agents, MCP servers, and evaluation loops that make AI-generated code reliable, auditable, and fast to ship. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and platform teams to deliver pragmatic, high-impact AI integrations at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the platform by implementing agents, MCP servers, and supporting services that propose and apply changes to large codebases

• Assist in developing retrieval systems that give AI agents and developers accurate, up-to-date context from large codebases and design artifacts

• Help measure and improve AI-generated changes by building compile/test/evaluate pipelines (static analysis, style and safety checks, performance gates, code review)

• Apply IMC’s best practices in concurrency, telemetry, configuration hygiene, and performance-sensitive code paths to ensure AI outputs are reliable and idiomatic

• Collaborate with teammates on experiments to evaluate and improve AI-driven workflows

What You Bring

• BS+ in Computer Science (or related) with strong fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems)

• 5+ year of professional software engineering experience

• Proficiency in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred)

• Experience contributing to developer-facing or production systems

• Curiosity and eagerness to learn about AI/LLM application patterns, even if you haven’t worked closely with them yet

• Strong communication skills; comfortable working with engineers in a fast, collaborative environment

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI tools or workflows (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)

• Experience with retrieval systems (vector search, embeddings, or hybrid approaches)

• Familiarity with compiler/static analysis or large-scale refactoring tools

• Interest in customizing or fine-tuning open-weight models

• Knowledge of model-serving or evaluation infrastructure

Why This Role at IMC

• Impact at scale: Your work will help bring AI directly into production developer workflows

• Growth: You’ll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI systems while learning from specialists in AI, systems, and developer productivity

• Collaboration: Join a team that works closely across engineering disciplines to solve high-value, pragmatic problems

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$180,000—$225,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.