AI Engineer

About CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.  Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology.  For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient.

CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedIn

C

chicagotrading.com

501-1,000 employees

Financial Services

Chicago, Illinois

1995

Privately Held

37k LinkedIn followers

• 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.
• Experience building software with LLMs and agents, including tools, context,
• orchestration, and model APIs.
• Familiarity with coding agents and the tradeoffs between different models,
• providers, and harnesses.
• Comfortable working in Python, C++, and/or Java.
• Experience building software used by other engineers or end users.
• Comfortable working across application code, developer tooling,
• infrastructure, and user-facing software.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems from idea through production.
• Hands-on use of this technology outside of work, including projects or
• experiments you've built for yourself.

Preferred

• Experience with model evaluation or benchmarking.
• Experience with inference optimization, fine-tuning, or post-training.
• Experience in financial markets or trading environments.
• Experience with quantitative research, market data, simulation, or
• backtesting.

• The salary range for this role is listed below. This role is also eligible for
• an annual discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon
• the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance.
• Most teams at CTC, with the exception of Trading, follow a hybrid workplace
• model, subject to change based on business need.
• We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we
• offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally.
• These benefits include generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental
• leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness
• reimbursement, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best
• employee experience.
• (Disclaimer: interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)