DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over three decades of experience operating in markets around the world. The company deploys sophisticated technology and trades using its own capital and risk across asset classes such as fixed income, ETFs, equities, foreign exchange, commodities, and energy, alongside non-traditional strategies including real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, DRW serves counterparties globally by providing liquidity and financial solutions.

In the artificial intelligence and machine learning space, DRW builds and operates centralized software, operations, and governance layers designed to provide low-friction access to frontier AI tools while managing costs. The firm's AI infrastructure initiatives focus on serving large language, vision, multimodal, and embedding models, optimizing inference performance across NVIDIA GPU architectures, managing multi-engine API gateways, and integrating self-hosted on-premise models with external cloud AI providers through a unified control plane.

Open roles in AI engineering indicate that DRW is building specialized platform teams consisting of platform engineers and AI inference platform engineers. These positions involve hands-on software development using languages like Go and Python, distributed systems work, and GPU infrastructure management. The open roles are located in Chicago and Montreal, focusing on onsite or regional infrastructure teams rather than fully remote positions.