Platform Engineer (HPC): $450,000 + Bonus/Benefits - Elite Fintech

Job Description

HPC Systems Engineer | NYC | Stealth Fund

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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....

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(Making nearly $14milllion per headcount)

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The Role

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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.

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What you'll touch:

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• SLURM job scheduling + workload tuning at scale
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• Parallel file systems (Lustre / GPFS) + high-perf storage (DDN, Weka, VAST, NetApp, SpectrumScale)
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• InfiniBand + high-speed Ethernet
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• Bare metal provisioning (PXE, DHCP, DNS) + config mgmt (Ansible, Salt, Terraform, xCAT)
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• Exchange connectivity upgrades + hardware refresh cycles - real vendor-facing ownership, not just internal tickets
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What gets you through the door:

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• 5+ years HPC sysadmin/architecture - RHEL/CentOS/Rocky (open to elite junior profiles)
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• SLURM/Moab/Torque experience
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• Python scripting fluency
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• Comfortable being the technical face to external vendors and exchanges, not just internal IT
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Why it's worth your time:

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• Small, dense team of genuinely brilliant engineers. No bureaucracy
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• Infra budget and hardware access most firms can't touch
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• Chicago or NYC. no remote dilution, you're in the room where the stack actually lives
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• Confidential mandate (happy to share full details on a call)
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If you are interested in the Engineer role, please apply directly or email View email address on ziprecruiter.com