HPC Systems Engineer

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. Our global High Performance Computing Team is looking to add a Systems Engineer in our London office. Our HPC Systems Engineers are responsible for building automation, maintaining, and troubleshooting Jump’s global production systems, including one of the largest supercomputing grids in the world. The scale of our computing environments provides unique challenges in providing good performance and reliability. Several systems including compute, scheduling, networks, and large-scale data storage must integrate seamlessly to support data pipelines and quantitative research. The ideal candidate would be a hands-on individual, highly skilled in the details and nuances of managing Linux environments with a strong software development background necessary to support uniquely customized systems at scale. What You'll Do: Daily access to world-class, large-scale production systems as well as an unparalleled high-performance research “supercomputer” Perform the functions of architect, engineer, and administrator 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, up to and inclu