Team Lead, AI Engineering

As Team Lead for AI Engineering at DRW, you will lead a newly formed, unified AI Platform Team responsible for providing low-friction access to frontier AI tools while managing costs across the firm. You oversee both AI Platform Engineering and AI Support & Enablement, ensuring that user pain points, tool limitations, and cost data directly inform your engineering roadmap and governance policies.

What you'll do

• Manage a dual-focus team of software engineers and AI support specialists, balancing rigorous agile engineering delivery with high-touch user enablement
• Oversee the technical vision for the Federated Management Plane, including the development of multi-engine API gateways, asynchronous data pipelines, and progressive friction policies
• Translate insights from the support queue such as prompt engineering struggles and quota requests into technical requirements for the engineering team to automate
• Act as the primary point of contact connecting the cloud foundation, third-party SaaS vendors, and internal on-premise AI hardware to ensure seamless model routing

What you bring

• Proven experience managing cross-functional technical teams, ideally spanning software engineering, platform operations, or product support
• Strong architectural background with technical expertise in distributed systems, API gateway management, and Go or Python
• A strategic mindset with the ability to define operational governance, cost-control workflows, and vendor management strategies
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and transition rapid prototypes into stable, permanent enterprise platforms

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $200,000 to $250,000 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 operating in markets around the world. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, DRW trades across fixed income, ETFs, equities, FX, commodities, and energy, and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.