AI Engineer

About Tradeweb

Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading across asset classes, serving more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world's largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.

Over the past four fiscal quarters, Tradeweb facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.8 trillion, topping $3.3 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2026. Since the IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled revenues – and 2025 was the 26th consecutive year of record revenues.

Tradeweb plays a central role in modernizing market structure by developing innovative trading protocols, embedding analytics into execution, and building technology infrastructure that supports the convergence of traditional and digitally native financial markets. Tradeweb is recognized in 2025 by Forbes as one of America's Best Companies and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For.

The Role

The AI/ML Engineer will lead the design and development of production-grade AI applications across several strategic initiatives. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building scalable systems from the ground up and working across modern AI, automation, and distributed application architectures.

Strategic AI & Trading Applications

Design and deliver next-generation applications supporting real-time workflows, pricing logic, automation, and transaction infrastructure. The role requires strong end-to-end engineering capabilities, including system architecture, backend development, and production deployment.

Workflow Automation & Financial Platforms

Build scalable applications that streamline complex operational and financial workflows for institutional users. Responsibilities include integrating intelligent automation, modern data infrastructure, and secure application connectivity within highly regulated environments.

Enterprise AI Productivity Tools

Contribute to the development of internal AI-powered productivity solutions that integrate with enterprise systems, communication platforms, and structured data sources. The environment leverages modern LLM architectures, multi-model AI orchestration, and secure data governance frameworks to support intelligent workflows across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver production-grade AI/ML applications across strategic financial technology and enterprise AI initiatives
• Design scalable backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and intelligent workflows integrated into enterprise production infrastructure
• Develop next-generation AI-enabled platforms leveraging agentic workflows, orchestration layers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent systems
• Partner closely with Product, Front Office, and Technology stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Contribute to modern AI engineering infrastructure supporting large language models (LLMs), internal developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI frameworks, tools, and machine learning technologies into real-world engineering workflows
• Build secure, governed, and reusable AI solutions within a highly regulated enterprise environment
• Operate with strong end-to-end ownership across architecture, development, deployment, and ongoing enhancement of applications
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering leadership, data teams, and business stakeholders to drive high-impact initiatives
• Help shape scalable AI capabilities that improve automation, productivity, and intelligent decision-making across the organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline
• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on work building and deploying production AI/ML systems
• Experience developing AI-enabled applications leveraging agentic workflows, multi-agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, or autonomous systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, API development, cloud infrastructure, data modeling, and scalable production deployment practices
• Practical experience working with modern LLM ecosystems, including large language model APIs, orchestration tooling, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures
• Proven ability to take AI applications from concept through production deployment, including monitoring, testing, reliability, and iterative improvement
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, product, and business teams in fast-paced environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with financial markets, trading systems, digital assets, or institutional financial workflows
• Experience with smart contract platforms, blockchain infrastructure, or decentralized technologies
• Exposure to enterprise data platforms and integrating AI systems with governed, structured datasets
• Background working within AI-focused startups, emerging technology firms, or environments where AI systems are core to the business
• Relevant AI/ML certifications, cloud specializations, or modern AI tooling experience

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range: $150,000 to $200,000 per year (based on New York location, regular full-time schedule). The amount of pay offered will be determined by qualifications, market data, geographic location, and internal guidelines.

Health & Wellness

• Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Maven Family Building Benefit offering support for fertility, preconception, pregnancy, post-partum, adoption, surrogacy, and pediatrics for children up to age 10. Tradeweb provides a $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption, and surrogacy expenses.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Perks
• Corporate Gym Subsidies
• Pet Insurance

Financial & Retirement

• 401(k) Savings Plan with immediate eligibility. Participants may contribute up to 75% of eligible compensation into a traditional 401(k) and/or Roth 401(k). Tradeweb will match 100% of the first 4% of compensation contributed.
• Financial Wellness Tools
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program

Work & Life

• Hybrid Environment with flexibility to work in the office and from home
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• ARAG Legal Services
• Travel Assistance Benefits

Equal Opportunity

Tradeweb Markets LLC is proud to be an EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled/Affirmative Action Employer.