Want to shape how an entire trading firm works with AI? This role owns AI adoption across a quantitative trading firmβs engineering, trading, and research teams. Youβll decide which AI capabilities the firm adopts and when, partner directly with traders and researchers to redesign how work gets done, and turn early wins into firm-wide fluency.
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Our client is a quantitative trading firm with offices around the world, built on a high-performance trading platform and independent trading teams. Portfolio managers build their own teams and strategies while drawing on the scale of a large, global organization. Engineers here work on low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning, and the culture is collaborative, casual, and refreshingly free of ego and unnecessary hierarchy.
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- Work for a stable, established organization where you can grow personally and professionally.
- Use your expertise in AI tooling, agentic workflows, and enablement to directly shape the product and business.
- Do meaningful work with a real impact on customers and the team every single day.
- Collaborate with bright, motivated people who genuinely enjoy working together and building something great.
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- Track model and feature releases across the firmβs AI tools, evaluate what matters, and drive decisions on what the firm adopts and when.
- Partner with InfoSec and Legal & Compliance to move new capabilities through review and into usersβ hands quickly.
- Stay close to the broader AI landscape and translate new developments into concrete opportunities for the firmβs teams.
- Define how adoption and impact are measured, and use real usage data to find where AI is delivering gains and where it isnβt.
- Work directly with trading and research teams to understand their workflows, identify where AI helps most, and redesign processes from the ground up.
- Run training sessions, build enablement materials, and turn what works for one team into something the next team can reuse.
- Standardize how teams configure, access, and use AI tools, and retire redundant tooling.
- Serve as the central connector between users, internal AI and platform teams, and vendors, surfacing team needs and influencing vendor roadmaps.
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- High AI fluency, with daily hands-on use of AI assistants, coding agents, and agentic workflows, plus a strong command of prompting, agents, tool use, MCP, and workflow design.
- A hands-on technical background in programming, automation, data analysis, or product and engineering work, with the range to take an idea from discovery to prototype to production.
- A track record of taking internal tools or platforms from early adopters to broad, firm-wide use.
- Sharp product instincts: you ask the right questions, get to root causes, lay out trade-offs clearly, and push back when needed.
- Sound judgment around responsible AI use, confidentiality, and operational risk, and comfort working with security and compliance partners.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Comfort with high autonomy in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment, owning outcomes and making tough calls.
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- Experience building AI fluency or enablement programs for technical teams.
- Experience shipping tools or products for technical audiences, internal or external.
- Admin or power user experience with one or more enterprise AI platforms.
- Familiarity with usage-based and token-based pricing models.
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- Base salary: $200,000 to $250,000 depending on experience, plus bonus eligibility.
- Generous paid time off.
- Savings plans and financial wellness tools.
- Hybrid work in New York or Chicago.
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily.
- In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses like gym and personal training.
- Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events.
- Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving.
- Social events, happy hours, and celebrations throughout the year.
- Workshops and continuous learning opportunities.
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