AI Engineer

We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to join Optiver's Applied AI and Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems that automate workflows, augment decision-making, and accelerate engineering across the firm. You'll own the full lifecycle—from identifying opportunities and translating ambiguous business problems into scalable AI solutions to deploying, operating, and continuously improving systems in production. You'll combine strong software engineering with pragmatic AI expertise to build reliable AI products that deliver measurable business impact.

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems and products—including agent platforms, AI assistants, code review harnesses, evaluation frameworks, and agentic research pipelines—using Python and modern AI frameworks integrated with internal systems, data platforms, and third-party AI services.

• Evaluate foundation models, agent architectures, and AI workflows, making pragmatic technology decisions based on capability, reliability, latency, security, cost, and business impact.

• Define success metrics and build robust evaluation frameworks, benchmarking tools, and observability capabilities to measure AI quality, safety, performance, and production readiness while enabling continuous improvement.

• Translate ambiguous business challenges into scalable technical solutions, ensuring AI-assisted development produces reliable software that meets both functional requirements and business objectives.

• Design resilient, distributed AI systems with a focus on scalability, state management, authentication, fault tolerance, security, and operational reliability.

• Rapidly prototype and experiment with emerging models, tools, and workflows, validating new capabilities against measurable success criteria before investing in