HPC & Distributed Systems Engineer — Greenfield Platform

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous paid vacation

Free breakfast, lunch & snacks

Health & wellness expense reimburse

Donation matching program

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is recruiting for a highly capable HPC/Distributed Systems Engineer to join a greenfield central trading team in London. You will help design and build the research stack from scratch, in a fast-paced environment with substantial autonomy and influential decision-making.

The role emphasizes a deep learning–first philosophy across research and modelling, with opportunities to shape direction early and scale infrastructure alongside a committed team.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed training and GPU-heavy workloads.
• Ability to operate and scale ML infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Strong analytical, independent problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Help build a best-in-class platform for alpha generation from scratch.
• Work in a greenfield environment with autonomy to shape direction.
• Collaborate across a centralised book with strategic influence.

Skills

Distributed training

GPU-heavy workloads

MapReduce-style systems

Strong analytical

Independent problem-solving

Communication

Tools

Ray

Spark

Dask

Databricks

Anyscale

Cloudera

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Job description

eFinancialCareers is recruiting for a highly capable HPC/Distributed Systems Engineer to join a greenfield central trading team in London. You will help design and build the research stack from scratch, in a fast-paced environment with substantial autonomy and influential decision-making.

The role emphasizes a deep learning–first philosophy across research and modelling, with opportunities to shape direction early and scale infrastructure alongside a committed team.