Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering

IMC is hiring a Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering in Chicago, United States. It pays $180k-$225k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on IMC.

Level's read on this job

Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this software engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
The listed pay starts 8% above the typical software engineer posting on Level.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AI agents.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
Level lists 155 other open roles at IMC.

AI in this role

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IMC is embedding agentic AI directly into the developer workflow for our production-critical systems. As a member of the Agentic AI engineering team, you’ll help build agents, MCP servers, and evaluation loops that make AI-generated code reliable, auditable, and fast to ship. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and platform teams to deliver pragmatic, high-impact AI integrations at scale.

Your Core Responsibilities:

Contribute to the platform by implementing agents, MCP servers, and supporting services that propose and apply changes to large codebases
Assist in developing retrieval systems that give AI agents and developers accurate, up-to-date context from large codebases and design artifacts
Help measure and improve AI-generated changes by building compile/test/evaluate pipelines (static analysis, style and safety checks, performance gates, code review)
Apply IMC’s best practices in concurrency, telemetry, configuration hygiene, and performance-sensitive code paths to ensure AI outputs are reliable and idiomatic
Collaborate with teammates on experiments to evaluate and improve AI-driven workflows

Your Skills & Experience:

BS+ in Computer Science (or related) with strong fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems)
5+ year of professional software engineering experience
Proficiency in a high-level programming language (Java or Python preferred)
Experience contributing to developer-facing or production systems
Curiosity and eagerness to learn about AI/LLM application patterns, even if you haven’t worked closely with them yet
Strong communication skills; comfortable working with engineers in a fast, collaborative environment

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range$180,000—$225,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

How we rate this

Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering at IMC rates 88 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Engineer – AI Powered Engineering is an open job at IMC.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $180k-$225k a year.
The role is based in Chicago, United States.
The job was posted on September 26, 2025.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by IMC. Apply on IMC

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agents

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Pay

This job starts at: $180k
Typical software engineer job: $167k

This posting starts 8% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

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List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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