Senior Associate, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

The OCC

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago, IL
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 54 days ago
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The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

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TL;DR · Senior Associate, Artificial Intelligence Engineering

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The Senior Associate, Artificial Intelligence Engineering joins the AI Research & Engineering team to build the company's first generation of agentic AI capabilities. This role involves hands-on design, development, and deployment of AI-powered applications and supporting infrastructure using Anthropic's Claude models on AWS. Key responsibilities include building production applications, contributing to agent orchestration, tool integration, and context design for multi-step workflows. The candidate will implement automated evaluation methods and output validation checks to ensure reliability in a regulated environment. Required technical skills include strong Python, SQL, and familiarity with AWS, CI/CD, and containerization. Preferred experience includes the Anthropic API, agent orchestration frameworks, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker. The work focuses on solving technical challenges within financial markets and other highly regulated industries.

Skills

Python SQL AWS Claude Anthropic API CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) Containerization LLM Agent Orchestration

What you'll do

Build and ship production AI applications using Claude and Anthropic's tooling on AWS.
Contribute to agent orchestration, tool integration, and context design for multi-step agentic workflows.
Develop application-side features like agent behavior, prompt architecture, and evaluation design.
Manage infrastructure components including AWS environments, CI/CD, and observability for AI systems.
Implement automated evaluation methods and output validation checks to ensure system reliability.
Participate in technical design decisions and conduct code and architecture reviews.
Implement technical standards defined by the AI Governance function.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
2-4 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong Python skills and working knowledge of SQL.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern engineering practices like CI/CD and containerization.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Hands-on exposure to Claude, the Anthropic API, or Claude.ai/Console (preferred).
Exposure to agent orchestration frameworks, Model Context Protocol, or AI infrastructure tools like Terraform and Kubernetes (preferred).

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