Systems Engineer

Chicago. Posted 6 months ago

The role

This senior individual contributor will own and evolve compute infrastructure including on-premise grids, hybrid cloud, GPU workloads, and storage systems. You will drive architectural improvements and provide technical leadership for research and trading systems.

What you will do

Own and evolve Slurm and Ray cluster infrastructure across on-prem and GCP
Drive architectural improvements to capacity, scheduling efficiency, and throughput
Design and maintain connectivity and automation between on-prem and cloud environments
Evaluate and implement newer compute paradigms
Own high-performance storage systems including VAST
Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks at the intersection of storage, network, and compute
Design and maintain provisioning systems for complex compute resources and datacenter onboarding
Own and improve CI/CD infrastructure and the development toolchain
Serve as the go-to architect for infrastructure decisions
Pair with and mentor earlier-career Systems & Software Engineers

Required qualifications

10+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure, or a closely related discipline
Deep Unix/Linux expertise across multiple distributions
Strong experience with HPC grid systems in a research or scientific computing environment
Experience provisioning and managing bare-metal infrastructure and data centers
Familiarity with high-performance / parallel storage systems (VAST, GPFS, Lustre, or similar)
Strong scripting and automation fluency (Bash, Python, or similar)
Ability to operate as an independent technical leader

Nice to have

SLURM preferred
Experience with distributed compute frameworks such as Ray, Dask, or Spark in a research context
Low-level systems programming on Linux using C/C++
Experience with GPU computation and instrumenting GPU utilization for ML/research workloads
Hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on GCP (or comparable major cloud)
Strong networking fundamentals
Background working alongside quantitative researchers or software engineers in a trading, finance, or research-intensive organization

Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
Competitive 401k plan
Employer-paid life & disability insurance
Wellness programs
Casual dress
Snacks, lunch, game room, team and company events
Open environment to maximize learning and knowledge sharing
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Competitive paid caregiver leaves

About the company

Aquatic Capital Management is a quantitative investment manager. The firm applies scientific research and technological innovation to global financial markets.