HPC Software Engineer

IC Resources

London

1 year ago

Applications closed

HPC Software Engineer

London

I'm currently partnered with a leading algorithmic trading firm, with sites around the globe. They are currently looking to bring on a HPC Software Engineer to be involved in contributing to their HPC Infrastructure, working on their private compute clusters. The software that you write will run on a compute cluster containing CPUs and GPUs and the work that you do will have a direct and pivotal impact on the quant research function of their business. You will also be part of a team that are working on the company's host monitoring infrastructure, implementing an internally-written filesystem and implementing a new high performance visualisation system.

They are looking for someone with significant experience within a similar setting, ideally financial services. Someone who thrives in a fast paced environment and looking to take their career to the next level. They offer some great benefits including: Excellent medical benefits, free onsite gym, sauna and gym classes, breakfast and lunch provided daily and generous pension contributions.

What's required for this HPC Software Engineer position?

Strong software development skills in Python and another statically typed language
Experience working with computer networks - Design, configuration, monitoring, automation, understanding of underlying hardware, IP/Ethernet and InfiniBand.
Strong knowledge of large-scale infrastructure management. Using code as tol to facilitate HW performance evaluation, automated builds, patching, application deployment etc
Experience and desire to solve complex problems.
Understanding of ML frameworks and compute offload devices like GPUs
Working knowledge of large-scale distributed systems

If you have a strong background in financial services and are looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself technically, with a company leading the algorithmic trading space, please apply to learn more.

If you are interested in this position, or other opportunities in the finance space, please contact Jack Bird at IC Resources.

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