Cloud Computing Engineer

About the role

The Cloud Computing 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 platform 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of cloud-based HPC systems.
• Running our HPC plant day-to-day.
• Implementing automation (CI/CD pipelines, production metrics, monitoring).
• Obsessive User Focus: partner with researchers and engineers to deliver high-quality cloud HPC systems that are efficient and reliable.
• Capacity management and benchmark optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping software systems.
• 2+ years running production compute platforms and scheduling systems.
• Mastery of core software engineering concepts such as system design, testing, debugging, building reliable production systems with fluency in a language such as Python, Go, Rust etc.
• Experience with a cloud-based infrastructure-as-code tool such as Terraform.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with or supporting researchers and/or other developers is a plus.
• Hands-on experience managing inferencing and training hardware at scale.
• Knowledge of NVIDIA GPU management, Kubernetes, Slurm, and the wider large-scale compute ecosystem.

Benefits

• PDT Partners has a 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence.
• Goal to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world—measured by the quality of our products, not their size.
• Very high employee-retention rate.
• Intellectually extraordinary, close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse community.

Pay

The salary range for this role is between $195,000 and $225,000. This range is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at minimum 3 days a week.