About this opportunity
HPC Systems Engineer | NYC | Stealth Fund
One of the most low-key, high-firepower quant trading firms in the game is hiring - elite infra, elite people, and a research/trading stack that runs like a Swiss watch....
(Making nearly $14milllion per headcount)
The Role
You'll own performance and reliability across a serious HPC estate - job scheduling, storage, networking, hardware - for a firm where milliseconds and research throughput actually move the P&L. This isn't ticket based sysadmin work. You're root-causing, automating, and owning infra end-to-end across research, trading, and enterprise environments.
What you'll touch:
- SLURM job scheduling + workload tuning at scale
- Parallel file systems (Lustre / GPFS) + high-perf storage (DDN, Weka, VAST, NetApp, SpectrumScale)
- InfiniBand + high-speed Ethernet
- Bare metal provisioning (PXE, DHCP, DNS) + config mgmt (Ansible, Salt, Terraform, xCAT)
- Exchange connectivity upgrades + hardware refresh cycles - real vendor-facing ownership, not just internal tickets
What gets you through the door:
- 5+ years HPC sysadmin/architecture - RHEL/CentOS/Rocky (open to elite junior profiles)
- SLURM/Moab/Torque experience
- Python scripting fluency
- Comfortable being the technical face to external vendors and exchanges, not just internal IT
Why it's worth your time:
- Small, dense team of genuinely brilliant engineers. No bureaucracy
- Infra budget and hardware access most firms can't touch
- Chicago or NYC. no remote dilution, you're in the room where the stack actually lives
- Confidential mandate (happy to share full details on a call)
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