Senior Software Engineer - Studio - Java, AI
About The Position
Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today's complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We've agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients. By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we're building the essentials to compete in today's fast-paced markets. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build the backend that powers AI features in our trading platform (Clear Street Studio). You'll own the AI service layer: retrieval, orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation. We're looking for people who take ownership, learn quickly, and deliver without heavy oversight in a fast-moving environment.
Requirements
- You have at least 7+ years of strong proficiency in enterprise Java.
- Experience designing and deploying AI/ML or LLM-backed systems in production
- Familiarity with LLM tooling and patterns: (e.g. tool calling, RAG pipelines and knowledge bases, evals, cost/latency tradeoffs, basic red-teaming).
- Experience in supporting and running systems in a production environment.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment, partnering with cross-functional teams, and moving from prototype to reliable production.
Nice To Haves
- Python is a plus for proofs-of-concept, evaluation and analysis
- Background in financial services or trading systems, genuine interest in AI.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and productionize reliable AI workflows to augment the Studio trading platform.
- Build tooling to monitor, tune, and evaluate models and workflows, as well as applicable guardrails to ensure outputs meet quality and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams across the firm to identify high ROI AI opportunities.
- Build rapid prototypes and translate them into production-grade systems. Utilize the latest AI-powered development tools to iterate quickly.
- Create reusable libraries, SDKs and tooling to enable AI development throughout the firm.
- Stay current on the latest in applied AI. Read papers, evaluate new models, test out new tools.
- Participate in code review and architecture design, manage deployments, and support and contribute to the success of the overall Studio platform.
Benefits
- The opportunity to join a fast-growing team of passionate people, where you can make a significant difference.
- An environment that embraces the utility of a DevOps oriented culture and combines it with a focus on CI/CD methodology.
- A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.
- company equity
- 401k matching
- gender neutral parental leave
- full medical, dental and vision insurance
- lunch stipends
- fully stocked kitchens
- happy hours
- a great location, and amazing views.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
