About the Role
Dexterity is hiring an HPC Engineer to design and optimize our physical datacenter infrastructure spanning tens of thousands of cores. We are looking for a driven, detail oriented engineer with a fanatical obsession with computer hardware encompassing everything from how a CPU works to specific architectural differences found in AMD’s newest bleeding edge processors and the ability to leverage this knowledge to create blazingly fast computing environments.
This position is a full time, in person role at our San Francisco office and requires excellent project management and technical know-how. You’ll have broad responsibilities and freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our operations worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy new machines to our datacenter
- Optimize our distributed storage layer including NFS configuration, local caching, etc
- Maintain our distributed workload manager
- Project management - gathering requirements, tracking updates and providing detailed documentation
- Monitor our deployments overall health and perform routine diagnostics
- Working with the networking teams on upgrading hardware, cabling, optics, etc
- Travel to data centers to ensure successful project completion
- Performing firmware upgrades on cluster machines
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 1-3 years of experience in HPC-like environments, with a minimum of 1 years experience in software development
- Extensive experience with Linux troubleshooting and NFS
- Experience with distributed workload managers / job schedulers such as SLURM
- Expertise with Python and shell scripting
- Deep knowledge of CPU architecture, other hardware components, and computer technology overall
- Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $175,000 to $225,000
- Participation in company bonus pool
- Health insurance and wellness benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy
- This role is in person role at our San Francisco office
Top Skills
What We Do
We love challenges. So we built Dexterity Capital, a quantitative trading firm focused on solving the hardest problems in finance. By combining brilliant people, world-class technology, and rich proprietary datasets we've built an algorithmic execution engine that trades billions of dollars every day.
We specialize in market neutral strategies. That means we thrive regardless of whether the bulls or bears are winning. With offices in Seattle, San Francisco, and London we run our strategies 24/7 around the globe.
At Dexterity Capital, we believe rigorous research, creativity, and a competitive streak are the keys to success. We also believe great outcomes merit great rewards. Find out more about working with us below.
