2026 Summer Internship - AI Engineer at DV Trading LLC in Chicago, IL

Summary: DV Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm that has rapidly scaled in the financial services sector. The internship focuses on developing internal tooling for AI engineering within the DevOps team, where the intern will work on various projects related to observability and agent workflows. Responsibilities: - Design and prototype agent workflows with tool use, policy boundaries, and human-in-the-loop where appropriate - Collaborate with platform and service teams to make more observability and operational context available in a safe, governed way for agents - Document experiments, limitations, evaluation approach, and safety assumptions; ship changes via Git (branches, merge requests, meaningful commits) Required Qualifications: - Pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; expected graduation Summer 2026 or 2027 - Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. LLM APIs, assistants, or coding agents) in real projects; preferably experience building an agent (tools, orchestration, or similar—not only prompt-only chat) - Experience with RAG (retrieval design, chunking, evaluation, grounding, or production-minded prototyping)—including applying it to real or simulated internal/knowledge-base style data, not only public tutorials - Python for prototyping and integration; comfortable consuming and creating APIs and working with JSON; able to understand YAML for configs - Git workflow: branches, merge requests, meaningful commit messages - Strong judgment on data handling: no secrets in prompts/logs, minimize sensitive data, follow internal policies Preferred Qualifications: - Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, logs, permissions, basic troubleshooting) - Networking basics: DNS, TCP/HTTP/S, ports, load balancing vs Ingress at a conceptual level - Kubernetes fundamentals: debugging, pods, services, ingress - Coursework or projects involving Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, or cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) Required Skills: AI tools experience, RAG experience, Python Important Skills: Git workflow, Linux fundamentals, Networking basics, Kubernetes fundamentals Internship Start Date: Start in 2026 Summer