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As a Software Engineer, you will build AI systems to enhance developer workflows, implementing agents and servers, and ensuring code reliability through evaluation pipelines.
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.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Your Skills & Experience:
Your Core 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
Your Skills & Experience:
- 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
IMC Trading Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
IMC Chicago opened its doors in 2000, becoming our first overseas office. It now hosts more than 800 employees, making it the largest IMC location. Home to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the city is at the centre of the global market.
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