Software Developer (Research)

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that its not just what we do that mattersit's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

We build the systems that turn real-world events into actionable signal, at low latency and high reliability in a trading environment where being right second is the same as being wrong. This role sits at the intersection of research and infrastructure: you'll form hypotheses, prove them with rapid analysis, and then build the production systems that act on them.

We also build with LLMs as a first-class part of the toolchain, not a side experiment. The people who do well here are the ones who can wield an agentic harness as fluently as
they wield a profiler and who know exactly where each one stops being trustworthy.

How You Will Make an Impact

Discovery & Research

• Expand our event-driven strategy across exchange feeds, market news, social media, and infrastructure telemetry.
• Spin up rapid analyses in Python/Jupyter to assess signal quality, and turn what you find into system improvements.

LLM & Agentic Systems

• Build and operate agentic harnesses tools, context management, evals, guardrails that do real work against our data and infrastructure, and own their quality in production.
• Apply LLMs where they genuinely win (extraction, classification, triage, research acceleration) and make the call to not use one where they don't.

Infrastructure & Technical Leadership

• Own full-stack performance from the network edge to in-memory stores instrumenting, monitoring, and debugging production systems alongside operations, keeping SLOs razor-sharp.
• Lead green-field initiatives, design reviews, and post-mortems.

What You Bring

Core

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