Compute Engineering Team Lead
Location: Chicago, or New York City, onsite
An elite global Hedge Fund is seeking a hands-on Compute Engineering Team Lead to lead and actively contribute to the design, automation, and operation of a large-scale compute platform. As a hands on leader you will spend a significant portion of you time architecting solutions, writing code, troubleshooting infrastructure, and partnering with engineers to solve complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of compute and infrastructure engineers while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical work.
- Design, build, and operate large-scale bare-metal Kubernetes and Linux platforms.
- Drive automation, tooling, and platform improvements using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Partner with developers, researchers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable compute services.
- Collaborate with networking, storage, and platform teams to optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency.
- Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and long-term platform strategy.
Requirements
- 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, Linux, or systems engineering experience.
- Prior experience leading engineers as a manager, tech lead, or team lead.
- Extensive hands-on experience operating bare-metal Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Deep expertise with Linux systems engineering and performance troubleshooting.
- Strong Python skills for automation and platform tooling.
- Experience supporting large compute environments consisting of thousands of servers.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Trading firm, hedge fund, quantitative research, or other performance-sensitive environments.
- High Performance Computing (HPC), distributed computing, or large-scale research platforms.
- Networking knowledge including TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, and low-latency infrastructure.
- Experience with Slurm or similar workload schedulers.
- Exposure to GPU, AI/ML, or large-scale research compute environments.
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