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DRW

Global principal trading firm; parent of Cumberland (crypto market maker).

Chicago, Illinois, USA
About DRW

DRW (drw.com) is a Chicago-based global principal trading firm across asset classes; its crypto arm is Cumberland, a leading digital-asset market maker.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design and build data pipelines for retrieval-augmented generation systems, ingest structured and unstructured data, optimize datasets for AI workloads, and deploy vector databases, embedding services, and processing pipelines. You will also monitor retrieval quality, improve data quality and latency, and collaborate with ML engineers on inference optimization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field
  • 2-5 years building data systems and pipelines in production environments
  • Experience with RAG architectures and vector databases
  • Proficiency in Python and DAG-based orchestration platforms
  • Experience with embedding models and semantic search systems
  • Experience with Apache Spark, Ray, or Dask
  • Understanding of LLM inference optimization and prompt engineering
  • Familiarity with Docker, containerization, and orchestration platforms
  • Knowledge of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data quality

Responsibilities

  • Design and build data pipelines for RAG systems
  • Build ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data into a centralized data lake
  • Develop workflows to prepare datasets for fine-tuning and inference
  • Build monitoring and evaluation frameworks for retrieval quality and system performance
  • Optimize data formats and storage patterns for GPU-accelerated inference
  • Implement caching and data versioning systems
  • Deploy and manage vector databases, embedding services, and data processing pipelines
  • Improve data quality, latency, and retrieval accuracy
  • Stay current with data engineering and AI technologies
  • Contribute ideas for tools, process improvements, and technology adoption