WHO WE ARE
Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
Since its establishment in 2012, our Shanghai office is a rapidly growing participant in the Chinese markets, trading exchange-listed futures, options and equities in China mainland. Our vision is to become the trusted partner in the development of Chinese financial markets. With the culture of a start-up but the backing of a 35+ year-old trading firm, the Optiver Shanghai office is truly unique. Everyone who joins us will help shape the future of our company and its global impact. Get ready: we are only just beginning.
Introduction:
We are seeking a senior software engineer who has built real agentic systems, thinks deeply about how to evaluate agents and understands how to deliver reliable AI products. In this role, you’ll work within our AI Engineering team and contribute to the platform that helps traders, researchers and engineers build trusted AI applications. You’ll have opportunities to work across the full lifecycle from model inference, evaluation, deployment and observability of agents solving real business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, develop and operate our internal AI Engineering platform
- Design and implement evaluations for agents across a range of tasks, developing robust ways to measure quality, reliability, and business impact
- Work closely with internal partner teams building their own applications and workflows with AI
- Understand the model provider landscape and the strengths/weaknesses of different model families
- Collaborate within the global AI Engineering team to share perspectives from your local customers
- Produce high-quality, unit-tested code and uphold consistent style and documentation through code reviews and CI/CD practices
- Troubleshoot and debug AI systems to ensure optimal performance
Qualifications:
- Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, AI, or related field
- Minimum of 4 years of professional software or ML engineering experience
- Strong problem-solving skills: ability to make progress on ambiguous problems, make pragmatic engineering decisions
- Solid software engineering fundamentals and a track record of building maintainable production systems
- Excellent knowledge of Python, common AI/ML libraries and integration with 3rd party services
- Some commercial or open source experience in developing AI agents with any of the well-known services
- Experience with LLM inference engines (sglang/vLLM/etc) a plus but not required
- Experience with model fine-tuning a plus but not required
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.
PRIVACY DISCLAIMER
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, or related field
- Minimum of 4 years professional experience developing Python applications
- Deep familiarity with Python 3.x, including asyncio, type hints, and context managers
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, object‑oriented design, and modular architecture
- Knowledge of common AI/ML libraries and integration with third‑party services
- Commercial or open source experience developing AI agents with well‑known services
- Experience with enterprise tools such as Git, Confluence and Slack
- Experience producing high‑quality, unit‑tested code and using CI/CD and code review practices
- Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to work in a dynamic environment
Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses materially elevating total earnings for strong contributors. High performers are described as seeing outsized upside when firm and team results are strong.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is depicted as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, alongside HSA/FSA options and mental-health support. Some locations note unlimited therapy access through a partner platform.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. roles are often described as offering 25 days of paid vacation plus market holidays, alongside generous parental leave. This breadth of time off is highlighted as helping to offset a high-intensity environment.
Optiver Insights
What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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