Senior AI Engineer

5+ years software engineering; strong Python

Production fine-tuning or distillation of open-weight models (not just inference API wrappers)

Experience serving LLMs on-prem (vLLM, TGI, Triton, or equivalent)

Experience managing GPU infrastructure (provisioning, scheduling, utilization monitoring) in a production environment

Model evaluation and regression testing in production

Kubernetes and GPU workload management

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care Options

Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance

Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance

Flexible Vacation policy

Build and operate a model gateway routing inference across open and closed models with cost, latency, and quality tracking

Design and run distillation pipelines: use frontier model outputs to generate training data for task-specific open models

Fine-tune and evaluate open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, or similar) for DV-specific tasks

Deploy and maintain on-prem inference infrastructure (vLLM, TGI, or equivalent) on KubernetesBuild model evaluation frameworks for quality, cost, latency, and regression

Define criteria and tooling for model selection: when open models are production-ready vs.

when to use closed APIs

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Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the

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Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016,

DV

Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now,