Platform Engineer - AI Engineering

As a Platform Engineer on DRW's AI Engineering team, you will build and operationalize the firm's AI tooling ecosystem. Working closely with the Team Lead and Senior/Staff engineers, you will integrate external cloud AI providers, internal models, and end-user tools into a unified control plane. The AI Platform Team manages both low-friction access to frontier AI tools and strict cost governance across the firm's growing AI infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Configure and manage multi-engine API gateways, implementing dynamic routing rules, rate limits, and fallback logic for LLM requests
• Execute the technical migration and integration of firm-wide tools into the centralized management plane to ensure all AI traffic is securely logged and governed
• Operate within the Shared Responsibility Model alongside the Cloud team to manage AI services deployed in enterprise landing zones, including managing Azure OpenAI instances, model deployments, and API key generation
• Write robust Go and Python code to support the continuous sync loop for the usage dashboard and implement automated "progressive friction" mechanisms such as alerts
• Partner with the Inference Infrastructure pod to ensure self-hosted, on-premise models are successfully registered and routable within the AI gateways

What you bring

• Strong backend programming experience in Go and/or Python
• Hands-on experience with API design, integration, and platform/cloud engineering concepts
• Familiarity with API gateways, proxy configuration, or distributed system networking
• A strong interest in the rapidly evolving LLM ecosystem and the technical mechanics of AI tooling
• A collaborative mindset with a focus on writing clean, maintainable code to replace prototype systems

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $130,000 to $190,000 depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility
• Comprehensive employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k with discretionary employer match, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience, headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. The firm trades a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets, and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.