Jump Trading

financial markets

AIInfrastructureEngineer

$200–250k Chicago, Illinois, United States Remote Friendly
The Brief

“AI Infrastructure Engineer at Jump Trading. Skills: production layer for AI capabilities, reliable, scalable services, hardening and scaling systems, designing and operating dedicated pathways, improving the reliability and breadth of the AI platform, context, tools, and agentic flows are composed at scale. own the production layer for AI capabilities deployed across trading teams. turning a fast-moving set of AI capabilities into reliable, scalable services for demanding internal users”

What You'll Achieve.

reliable, scalable services for demanding internal users; meets stringent operational requirements; continuously improving the reliability and breadth of the AI platform; generate signals from unstructured data; put frontier AI capabilities into the hands of the people doing the most demanding quantitative work in the world

Industry & Context.

financial markets
Problems you'll solve

systems instincts; sharp sense for how distributed systems fail under load; Intellectual curiosity

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ year track record of building and operating production systems at meaningful scale, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field, development skills in Python, working knowledge of at least one systems language, Deep Linux fluency, sharp sense for how distributed systems fail under load, Hands-on experience with agentic systems, Hands-on experience with context engineering, Hands-on experience with harness design, Product instinct, customer view when building tooling for sophisticated internal users, A taste for ops work, an appetite for keeping critical systems healthy, Intellectual curiosity, a bias toward shipping, Reliable and predictable availability

What You'll Do.

own the production layer for AI capabilities deployed across trading teams

turning a fast-moving set of AI capabilities into reliable

scalable services for demanding internal users

bring their work into production

ensure that what we ship meets stringent operational requirements

hardening and scaling the systems that deliver AI to internal users

designing and operating dedicated pathways that protect critical-path workflows from contention with heavier non-trading workloads

continuously improving the reliability and breadth of the AI platform

play a central role in how context

and agentic flows are composed at scale

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partner with the research and platform groups; partner with trading teams

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