HPC Systems Engineer

As an HPC Systems Engineer at Jump Trading, you join our global High Performance Computing Team in our Sydney office. You design, implement, and maintain the compute, scheduling, network, and storage systems that integrate seamlessly to support data pipelines and quantitative research at scale. You are a hands-on engineer, highly skilled in Linux environments with strong software development capabilities to support uniquely customized systems.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, maintain, and support high performance compute and storage systems
• Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
• Monitor systems and storage performance, including network components
• Build tooling to compile, package, install, and upgrade software and operating system components at scale
• Collaborate with team members across teams to write code and testing infrastructures in multiple programming languages
• Develop and improve systems and user documentation
• Participate in large coordinated maintenance operations, including during evenings and weekends
• Work on global projects across a wide range of infrastructure
• Collaborate directly with researchers to optimize their use of HPC infrastructure
• Develop and monitor the tools used to maintain a production computing environment
• Provide operational support on a rotating basis and as needed
• Manage relationships with outside vendors, including traveling domestically and internationally to meet with current and potential vendors
• Adhere to all company cybersecurity and IT policies, using only approved hardware and software

What you bring

• 5+ years of professional experience in high performance computing (HPC), including parallel filesystems such as Lustre or GPFS, and batch systems such as Slurm or Grid Engine
• 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration
• High proficiency with at least one programming or scripting language such as Go, Python, or C
• Extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining complicated, interdependent, and distributed systems
• Extensive experience profiling and debugging application stacks using debuggers and profilers
• Experience with system configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, or Puppet
• A compulsion to perform root cause analysis
• Reliable and predictable availability

About Jump Trading

Jump Trading Group is a research-driven organization empowering exceptional talent in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. The company designs, develops, and deploys technologies that change the world, funds start-ups across industries, and partners with leading research organizations and universities to solve problems.