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Systems Engineer, Servers/Cloud/Data

D. E. Shaw Research · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
HybridResearch$250k–$800k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam warning, application instructions. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Opening paragraph: "Exceptional systems engineers sought to develop and manage systems infrastructure, software, and networks for a New York–based drug discovery and computational biochemistry research company. Opportunities are available in our New York City offices or our Durham, NC and Pittsburgh, PA data centers." - Then "Successful hires will be responsible for our server, cloud, and data environment, including:" then a list of items (Kubernetes-powered applications, Tens of petabytes of storage, Identity management infrastructure, Public cloud environments, State-of-the-art GPU clusters with thousands of GPUs, High-performance RDMA fabrics and wide-area networks, Linux fleet with over a hundred thousand CPU cores, Massively parallel custom supercomputers, Making all of the above available to machine learning and drug discovery researchers and agents in a secure and convenient way). This is responsibilities. - Then "Ideal candidates will have strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes in addition to practical experience administering Linux systems. Relevant areas of expertise might include large-installation systems administration, HPC systems engineering, programming and scripting of distributed systems in Python, high performance data-parallel computing, systems software, software development, email and data retention processes, Kubernetes systems engineering, and user support, but specific knowledge of and level of experience in any of these areas is less critical than intellectual curiosity, versatility, and a track record of achievement. Candidates should have excellent communication skills, and we will consider candidates at all levels of experience. We are looking to add innovative contributors who share our commitment to fostering a stimulating, positive, and collaborative work environment." - Then description of company: "D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) develops and uses advanced computational technologies to understand the behavior of biologically and pharmaceutically significant molecules at an atomic level of detail, and to design precisely targeted, highly selective drugs for the treatment of various diseases. Among its core technologies is Anton, a proprietary special-purpose supercomputer that DESRES designed and constructed to vastly accelerate the process of molecular dynamics simulation. DESRES uses Anton machines and high-speed commodity hardware, together with machine learning methods and other computational techniques, in both internal and collaborative drug discovery programs. For more information, visit www.DEShawResearch.com." - Then salary: "The expected annual base salary for this position is $250,000–$800,000. Our compensation package also includes variable compensation in the form of sign-on and year-end bonuses, and generous benefits, including relocation and immigration assistance. The applicable annual base salary paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors including the nature and extent of prior experience, educational background, and location." - Then schedule: "We follow a hybrid work schedule, in which employees work from the office three days per week, and have the option of working from home the other two days per week." - Then EEO line: "D. E. Shaw Research, LLC is an equal opportunity employer." This is boilerplate to remove. - Also there is application link: "To submit an application, please use the link provided below: https://apply.deshawresearch.com/careers/Register?pipelineId=967&source=LinkedIn" Remove. We need to produce sections. Potential sections: - About the role: Could include opening paragraph describing role and opportunities locations. - Responsibilities: The list of items after "Successful hires will be responsible for our server, cloud, and data environment, including:" plus maybe the making available sentence. - Requirements: Could include fundamental Linux knowledge, practical experience administering Linux systems, communication skills, etc. Also maybe "consider candidates at all levels of experience". But we need to avoid filler. - Qualifications: Might be overlapping with requirements; but we need to decide which sections to include. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine some. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections have content. Let's extract: About the role: The first paragraph describes the role and locations. That's substantive. Responsibilities: The list of infrastructure items and making them available. That's substantive. Requirements: Could be "Ideal candidates will have strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes in addition to practical experience administering Linux systems." plus "Candidates should have excellent communication skills". Also "we will consider candidates at all levels of experience." That's maybe not a requirement but a note. Could include. Qualifications: Might be similar to requirements; maybe we can skip Qualifications if it's redundant. But we could include "Relevant areas of expertise might include large-installation systems administration, HPC systems engineering, programming and scripting of distributed systems in Python, high performance data-parallel computing, systems software, software development, email and data retention processes, Kubernetes systems engineering, and user support". That's more like qualifications/skills. Skills: Could list those areas of expertise. Benefits: The posting mentions "generous benefits, including relocation and immigration assistance." Also variable compensation (sign-on and year-end bonuses) maybe part of compensation, not benefits. But we have benefits section: we have relocation and immigration assistance. That's specific enough. Pay: Salary range $250,000–$800,000 plus variable compensation (sign-on and year-end bonuses). That's specific. Schedule: Hybrid work schedule: office three days per week, option to work from home two days. Thus we can include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (or Skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which headings to use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose any of those. We need to avoid thin sections. Let's combine Requirements and Skills maybe into one "Requirements" that includes both fundamental knowledge and relevant expertise. Or we could have "Requirements" for fundamental Linux knowledge and communication skills, and "Skills" for the list of expertise. But that might be thin. Better to have one "Requirements" that includes both. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Check if we have content for each: - About the role: opening paragraph + locations. - Responsibilities: list of infrastructure items. - Requirements: fundamental Linux knowledge, practical experience administering Linux systems, excellent communication skills, consider candidates at all levels of experience (maybe we can include that as note). Also maybe "intellectual curiosity, versatility, and a track record of achievement" but that's more like desired traits. Could include. - Benefits: generous benefits including relocation and immigration assistance. - Pay: expected annual base salary $250k–$800k, variable compensation sign-on and year-end bonuses. - Schedule: hybrid work schedule: office three days per week, option to work from home two days. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We have none. We must not repeat job title. We must not include Job ID etc. We must not include application instructions. We must not include EEO line. We must not include navigation/legal. We must not include the company description? That's substantive but maybe could go under About the role or a separate "About the company". But we don't have a heading for About the company; we could incorporate into About the role or maybe a separate "About the company". However the instruction only lists certain headings; we could add a section like "About the company" but not in list; better to stick to given headings. The company description could be placed under About the role as part of role description. It's okay. Thus we will produce:

About the role

Exceptional systems engineers sought to develop and manage systems infrastructure, software, and networks for a New York–based drug discovery and computational biochemistry research company. Opportunities are available in our New York City offices or our Durham, NC and Pittsburgh, PA data centers. D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) develops and uses advanced computational technologies to understand the behavior of biologically and pharmaceutically significant molecules at an atomic level of detail, and to design precisely targeted, highly selective drugs for the treatment of various diseases. Among its core technologies is Anton, a proprietary special-purpose supercomputer that DESRES designed and constructed to vastly accelerate the process of molecular dynamics simulation. DESRES uses Anton machines and high-speed commodity hardware, together with machine learning methods and other computational techniques, in both internal and collaborative drug discovery programs.

Responsibilities

  • Kubernetes-powered applications
  • Tens of petabytes of storage
  • Identity management infrastructure
  • Public cloud environments
  • State-of-the-art GPU clusters with thousands of GPUs
  • High-performance RDMA fabrics and wide-area networks
  • Linux fleet with over a hundred thousand CPU cores
  • Massively parallel custom supercomputers
  • Making all of the above available to machine learning and drug discovery researchers and agents in a secure and convenient way

Requirements

  • Strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes
  • Practical experience administering Linux systems
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Intellectual curiosity, versatility, and a track record of achievement
  • Consideration of candidates at all levels of experience
But we might want to include the list of relevant areas of expertise somewhere. Could be under Requirements as well, but that list is long. Could be a separate Skills section. However we said prefer few sections. Could add a Skills section for that list. But then we would have many sections. Let's see if we can incorporate that list into Requirements as bullet points; that would make Requirements long but still okay. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Having a long Requirements section is fine. Thus we can add bullet points for relevant areas of expertise. Let's add:
  • Relevant areas of expertise might include large-installation systems administration, HPC systems engineering, programming and scripting of distributed systems in Python, high performance data-parallel computing, systems software, software development, email and data retention processes, Kubernetes systems engineering, and user support
  • But that is a sentence; we could break into multiple bullets but it's okay as one. Now Benefits:

    Benefits

    • Generous benefits including relocation and immigration assistance
    • Variable compensation in the form of sign-on and year-end bonuses
    But variable compensation maybe belongs to Pay. However we already have Pay section for base salary. We could keep variable compensation under Benefits or Pay. The instruction: Benefits section only if posting actually states them. It states "generous benefits, including relocation and immigration assistance." It also mentions variable compensation in the form of sign-on and year-end bonuses under compensation package. That could be considered part of Pay. But we can include variable compensation under Pay as well. Let's decide: Pay section: base salary range and variable compensation (sign-on and year-end bonuses). Benefits section: relocation and immigration assistance. Thus:

    Pay

    The expected annual base salary for this position is $250,000–$800,000. Our compensation package also includes variable compensation in the form of sign-on and year-end bonuses. The applicable annual base salary paid to a successful applicant will be determined based on multiple factors including the nature and extent of prior experience, educational background, and location.

    Benefits

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