AI Engineer [Trading Analytics & Data Engineering]

Engineers and Constructors International Inc. • Houston, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're hiring an AI Engineer with a strong data engineering foundation and excellent communication skills—ideally with commodity or financial trading experience. You'll partner with traders and trading analysts to rapidly build AI powered analytics over market pricing and fundamentals data, using Databricks and Spark to deliver value at speed.

Requirements

• Hands on Databricks + Spark expertise (PySpark, SQL, Delta, Unity Catalog).
• Proven data engineering skills (ingestion, modelling, orchestration, performance tuning).
• Strong statistics/economics/data science fundamentals for market time series.
• Experience building LLM solutions (prompting, retrieval, agent flows; LangGraph, MCP) and integrating with trading data/services.
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, MLflow/feature stores, vector DBs, and governance (PII handling, data lineage).
• Excellent stakeholder skills; able to work on desk with traders/analysts and deliver fast.

Nice To Haves

• Background in commodity or financial trading.
• Familiarity with market microstructure, supply demand fundamentals, risk management.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship AI driven analytics for front office use (seasonality, correlation, regression, forecasting, scenario modelling).
• Build reusable and scalable data pipelines in Databricks (PySpark/Spark, Delta/Unity Catalog), optimizing cost, reliability, and performance.
• Run statistical/econometric analyses on large datasets (e.g., market & fundamental time series data).
• Collaborate directly with traders/analysts—translate ambiguous questions into shippable solutions; communicate insights clearly.
• Implement LLM/agentic workflows: prompt engineering, LangGraph orchestration, MCP integrations, tool calling, retrieval, and guardrails.
• Productionize solutions with testing, observability, versioning, and documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees