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# AI Engineer

- **Company:** CAMP SYCAMORE CREEK
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Software Construction, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Model Validation, AI Coding Agents
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_b8a78168cbd4a4d78e0503dc9e2ce8aa

## About the Role

* 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., * 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.

## Description

* 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.