Radix Trading

About Radix Trading

Quantitative trading powered by data and research

Key Highlights

  • Founded in 2006, headquartered in Chicago
  • Focus on quantitative trading and market-making
  • Utilizes advanced statistical research and machine learning
  • Offers competitive salaries and equity participation

Radix Trading is a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago, specializing in quantitative trading strategies and market-making across various asset classes. Founded in 2006, Radix leverages advanced statistical research and technology to execute trades efficiently, serving clients in the financial ...

🎁 Benefits

Radix Trading offers competitive salaries, performance-based bonuses, equity participation, and comprehensive health benefits. Employees enjoy a flexi...

🌟 Culture

Radix Trading fosters a culture of intellectual curiosity and data-driven decision-making. The firm emphasizes collaboration among quantitative resear...

Overview

Radix Trading is hiring a Senior HPC Systems Engineer to optimize high-performance computing systems. You'll work with Linux, SLURM, and various networking technologies. This position requires 5+ years of experience in HPC system administration.

Job Description

Who you are

You have over 5 years of experience in HPC system administration and architecture, particularly with RHEL, CentOS, and Rocky systems. Your expertise in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues is complemented by your fluency in scripting languages, especially Python, which you use to automate processes and improve system efficiency. You are adept at navigating networking and system alerts, ensuring that performance tuning across HPC applications is seamless and effective.

Your experience includes working with job schedulers and resource management tools such as SLURM, Moab, or Torque. You possess a strong understanding of network storage systems like DDN, IBM SpectrumScale, NetApp, and Weka, as well as parallel file systems such as Lustre or Spectrum Scale (GPFS). Your hands-on experience with InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet allows you to optimize connectivity and performance across systems.

You are familiar with configuration management tools such as xCAT, Ansible, Salt, and Terraform, which you leverage to manage and provision infrastructure efficiently. Your exposure to bare metal provisioning, including DHCP, DNS, and PXE Boot, equips you with the skills to handle complex setups and configurations. You thrive in collaborative environments, effectively communicating with internal teams and external partners to ensure project success.

What you'll do

In this role, you will own the monitoring and performance tuning of HPC applications, utilizing your expertise with SLURM job scheduler and networking to optimize workload efficiency. You will perform root-cause analysis to develop sustainable automated solutions, ensuring that alerts and errors are addressed promptly. Your communication skills will be vital as you interact with external vendors and business interfaces, managing day-to-day operations and planning for connectivity and exchange upgrades.

You will oversee project management across different functions, coordinating hardware refreshes and other improvements or rollouts. Your responsibilities will include building out and supporting research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure, ensuring that all systems operate at peak performance. You will lead projects end-to-end, leveraging your technical knowledge and leadership skills to drive initiatives forward.

What we offer

At Radix Trading, you will be part of a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration. We offer competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment. You will have the chance to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to impactful projects that shape the future of trading and research infrastructure. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement, as we value diverse perspectives and skills.

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