AI Application Engineer

Tradition is the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition and one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter financial and commodity related products. CFT is represented in over 28 countries, employing over 2,500 people.

Tradition’s goal is to provide superior client services. It believes its business success is a direct reflection of its employees and recruits. As such, teamwork, creativity, reliability and integrity are components of a work ethic taken very seriously since the company was founded in 1959.

Tradition is currently seeking to appoint an AI Application Engineer to be based in our London office.

Main responsibilities within the AI Application Engineer position include:

• Continue developing and improving the platform, including adding new agents and agentic workflows
• Support deployment and adaptation of the platform across multiple regions, accounting for infrastructure and compliance differences
• Build applications and workflows on top of on-prem LLMs served via vLLM
• Manage and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads (user level operations, deployments, scaling, logs)
• Administer and configure OpenWebUI, including user management, model access, and integrations
• Set up and maintain deployment pipelines and CI/CD for AI applications
• Monitor application health, model performance, and usage/cost as the platform scales
• Gather feedback from stakeholders across teams and sectors to prioritize features and improvements
• Create and maintain documentation and training materials to support adoption

Key skills and experience required in this role:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 1 to 2 years of experience – post-graduation - in an applied AI, ML engineering, or software engineering role
• Strong Python skills
• Familiarity with on-prem LLMs and consuming models served via vLLM (no deployment/ops experience required)
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes from a user/operator perspective
• Admin-level experience with OpenWebUI or similar LLM front-end platforms
• Experience designing or building agentic workflows (tool use, multi-step automation, orchestration frameworks)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Familiarity with application/system monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana or similar)
• Ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholders and sectors with differing needs and priorities
• Autonomy to prioritize your own work and drive progress toward broader team goals

Tradition do not accept agency CV’s. Please do not forward CV’s to our employees or Talent team. Tradition are not accountable for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. The Talent team will reach out to trusted agents when required.

Please note, due to the large volume of applications for this position, only suitable candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us within 14 days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful.

Tradition welcome all suitable applications and are an equal opportunity employer who value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications and merit.

By applying for this role, you agree that we may retain your details on our system for a period of 6 months and may contact you for any future vacancies that may arise within the Tradition Group.