Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy proprietary software development solutions across the firm.
- Create MLOps and High Availability inference systems.
- Engage in data pipeline engineering.
- Develop Agentic / RAG / MCP (tools) Development.
- Perform GPU optimization and management.
- Build full stack web applications and dashboards.
- Identify innovative solutions to complex problems and advocate for their implementation by communicating ideas clearly and concisely.
- Conduct research using a data driven approach to employ statistical analytics on large data sets.
- Collaborate with other software developers, quantitative traders and researchers as well as business analysts in cross-functional team environments.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics or any related science discipline.
- Expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.
- Exposure to multi-threaded applications, computational intelligence, algorithms, real-time programming or GUI programming.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Exhibit excellent software development skills in at least one of Python, JavaScript (Node, React, and/or Angular), C++, Ruby, C#, Go or Java.
Nice to Have
- Deep curiosity to learn and absorb new technologies quickly.
Benefits
- Meaningful projects: Challenging project advised by a software engineer promoting comprehensive learning and meaningful work experience.
- Community: Educational, social and team-building activities to foster friendship and camaraderie.
- Housing: Fully furnished apartments provided by DRW located close to the office.
- Mentorship: Professional relationship with an experienced mentor; mentors and mentees meet to discuss goals, challenges, professional development, and explore the city together at mentor outings.
- Education: Completion of an options course taught by an experienced trader and participation in a technology immersion course to understand how technology and trading intersect.
Work Arrangement
On-site — Chicago, U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia
Additional Information
- DRW operates using its own capital and trading at its own risk.
- The firm values autonomy, ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, high expectations, integrity, innovation, and willingness to challenge consensus.
- Candidates should review the Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/privacy-notice.
- California residents should review the California Privacy Notice at https://drw.com/california-privacy-notice.