Research Computing Engineer/SRE

About the position

The Research Computing HPC team is a group of experts solving computing problems in the critical path of Research. We work directly with Research and Model Implementation teams and provide them with tools and computing resources to take their ideas from inception to real tradable products. We are looking for an ambitious and operationally minded software engineer to join our team as we mature and scale our cloud HPC platform to the next iteration of our firm-wide Research platform. Why join us? PDT Partners has a stellar 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world-measured by the quality of our products, not their size. PDT's very high employee-retention and mobility speaks for itself. Our people are intellectually extraordinary, and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse. Our engineers love to work on challenging and complicated problems, and in return, they have a chance to make a direct impact on our bottom line, without the attitude and bureaucracy of a typical Wall Street firm.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of cloud-based HPC systems.
• Running our HPC plant day-to-day.
• Implementing automation from CI/CD pipelines to production metrics and monitoring of our cloud HPC platform.
• Obsessive User Focus by partnering with researchers and engineers to deliver high-quality cloud HPC systems.
• Capacity management and benchmark optimization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering and/or systems programming experience
• 2+ years of experience working with a public cloud such as AWS
• Mastery of at least one programming language building production systems such as Python or Rust
• Experience with a production configuration management tool such as Salt/SaltStack
• Experience with a cloud-based infrastructure-as-code tool such as Terraform
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Past experience working with or supporting researchers and/or other developers
• Knowledge of NVIDIA GPU management, Slurm, or similar HPC schedulers and resource managers

Benefits

• Salary range between $195,000 and $225,000, not inclusive of potential bonuses.