Cedar Peak Partners

Our client is one of the global merchant energy and commodities trading houses: physical and financial desks across Europe, Asia and the Americas, long-term assets behind them, and a management team that has decided the next phase of the business gets built on AI. This is one of the engineering seats that makes that real on the trading floor.
The seat
This is a forward deployed seat. You sit with the commercial teams, not in a central function. You find the workflow problems worth solving, design the fix, ship it from prototype to production, and feed what you learn back to the platform engineers who own the core stack. As the AI portfolio grows you help decide what gets built, in what order, and whether it is actually being used.
What you will build
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<li>Agentic tools for traders, analysts and operations: scoped with the desk, shipped by you</li>
<li>Extensions to the firm's in-house GenAI platform: connectors into trading systems and market data, MCP servers, tool use, and skills specific to the trading domain</li>
<li>Whatever the problem needs: LLMs and RAG for the unstructured work; forecasting and optimization for pricing, supply and demand, trade flows and operations</li>
<li>Trust: you explain to traders and senior management what a model can and cannot do, so they use it with confidence</li>
<li>The standard: reviews, evals, tooling decisions, and bringing other engineers up with you</li>
</ul>
What you bring
<ul>
<li>5+ years hands-on in software engineering, AI engineering, ML or data science</li>
<li>Fluent Python with proper engineering habits: modular code, tests, version control, review</li>
<li>Shipped GenAI work: prompting, RAG, tool use, agentic workflows, evaluation, and at least one orchestration framework (LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar)</li>
<li>Cloud experience, AWS preferred</li>
<li>A quantitative degree: computer science, math, statistics, data science or similar</li>
<li>Clear with both engineers and traders, comfortable working on your own, no politics</li>
<li>Real curiosity about how commodities markets and trading desks make money, and the appetite to learn the domain properly</li>
</ul>
Why this seat
<ul>
<li>Short path from idea to production: flat structure, small teams, decisions made quickly</li>
<li>Daily contact with trading desks and business units across the firm's main regions</li>
<li>An experienced, well-funded AI team with the backing of senior management</li>
<li>Competitive salary and full US benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, 401(k) with company contributions, life and disability coverage</li>
</ul>

Forward Deployed Engineer, Commodities Trading

Forward Deployed Engineer, Commodities Trading

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