IMC Trading

Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering

Chicago, United States · Full-time

No sponsorship$180k-$200kDetected 26 days ago

PythonJavaData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewLLMsAgentic AILangGraphResearchCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

IMC is embedding agentic AI directly into the developer workflow for our production-critical systems.
The Base Salary range for the role is included below.
Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend.

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

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

$180,000 - $200,000 USD
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone.
Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend.
Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back.
From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
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.

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone.
Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back.
From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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

This listing is sourced directly from IMC Trading's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.