HPC Data Center Developer

Jump Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options

Employer-paid Group Term Life and AD&D

Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance

Paid vacation plus paid holidays

Retirement plan with employer match

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Jump Trading Group in Chicago or New York is seeking an HPC Data Center Production Engineer to design and own automation for onboarding hardware and lifecycle management. You will build tools for capacity planning, outage simulation, and observability, partnering with HPC Planning, Engineering, and Operations to deliver production-ready systems.

The role emphasizes reliability, documentation, and the use of AI tools for coding, debugging, and analytics, with occasional evenings and weekends as

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, infrastructure automation, or site reliability engineering, preferably in HPC or large-scale data-center environments.
• Proven track record of building and shipping production automation and tooling that is maintained and reliable.
• Experience automating hardware provisioning and lifecycle management for servers, network devices, and power/cooling infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of data-center infrastructure: power distribution, cooling systems, environmental monitoring, and structured cabling.
• Experience integrating with hardware management interfaces for discovery, configuration, and telemetry collection.
• Result-driven, high-energy professional able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Reliable and predictable availability, including ability to work evenings and weekends as required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Hardware onboarding automation from racked hardware to production-ready state with minimal manual intervention.
• Data center tooling for power/cooling capacity planning, outage simulation, and hardware lifecycle tracking.
• Monitoring and metrics integration using centralized observability platforms.
• Cross-team collaboration with HPC Planning, Engineering, and Operations to translate tooling needs into production-ready systems.
• Systems maintenance and reliability, incident response, and comprehensive documentation.
• AI-driven development to accelerate coding, debugging, and analytics for data-center operations.
• Perform additional duties as assigned or needed.

Skills

Golang

Python

Linux

Communication skills

Reliability under pressure

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

InfluxDB

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

IPMI/Redfish/SNMP

Job description

HPC Data Center Production Engineer

Chicago, IL or New York, NY – On-site 5 days/week.

Jump Trading Group is a global organization of engineers who architect, build, and maintain world‑class trading infrastructure. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to push scientific boundaries and apply cutting‑edge research to global financial markets. Our culture demands fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and relentless competitiveness.

We are looking for an HPC Data Center Production Engineer to build and own the automation and tooling that powers Jump’s HPC data‑center operations. This development‑heavy role focuses on automating the onboarding and lifecycle management of data‑center hardware—servers, switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, and environmental sensors—and building tools for capacity planning, outage simulation, monitoring, and metrics integration.

Responsibilities

• Hardware Onboarding Automation – Design, develop, and maintain automation to onboard new hardware devices—including servers, network switches, rack PDUs, CDUs, and environmental sensors—taking them from racked and cabled to discovery, configuration, validation, and production‑ready state with minimal manual intervention.
• Data Center Tooling Development – Build tools for power and cooling capacity planning, outage simulation, and day‑to‑day operational support such as hardware lifecycle tracking, inventory management, change management, and diagnostics.
• Monitoring & Metrics Integration – Pull telemetry from all infrastructure components into centralized observability platforms, integrate provider metrics feeds, and implement the monitoring and alerting strategy.
• Cross‑Team Collaboration – Work closely with HPC Planning, Engineering, and Operations leads to translate tooling and monitoring needs into production‑ready systems, and partner with HPC Engineering on integration points with compute, storage, and network provisioning.
• Systems Maintenance & Reliability – Own reliability and lifecycle of all developed systems, monitor for failures, respond to incidents, iterate based on feedback, maintain comprehensive documentation, and participate in large maintenance operations including evenings and weekends.
• AI‑Driven Development – Use AI tools daily for code, debugging, documentation, and accelerate development velocity. Identify opportunities to apply AI to data‑center operations such as anomaly detection and predictive planning.
• Perform additional duties as assigned or needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, infrastructure automation, or site reliability engineering, preferably in HPC or large‑scale data‑center environments.
• Proven track record of building and shipping production automation and tooling that is maintained and reliable.
• Experience automating hardware provisioning and lifecycle management for servers, network devices, and power/cooling infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of data‑center infrastructure: power distribution, cooling systems (air and liquid), environmental monitoring, and structured cabling.
• Experience integrating with hardware management interfaces (IPMI, BMC, Redfish, SNMP, vendor APIs) for discovery, configuration, and telemetry collection.
• Result‑driven, high‑energy professional able to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Reliable and predictable availability, including ability to work evenings and weekends as required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Technical Skills

• High proficiency in Golang and at least one additional language (e.g., Python).
• Strong Linux systems knowledge, including system administration, networking, storage, process management, log analysis, and troubleshooting at the OS level.
• Experience with Grafana dashboards, Prometheus, InfluxDB, or similar observability platforms and building custom integrations or exporters.
• Experience with configuration‑management and infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform.
• Solid networking knowledge: L2/L3 protocols, VLANs, BGP, SNMP, and switch/router configuration (Arista, Cisco).
• Experience consuming vendor APIs, normalizing heterogeneous data sources, building data pipelines for metrics and reporting.
• Experience with ClickHouse and MySQL, writing queries, designing schemas, and building tooling that reads from and writes to these databases.
• Experience with GitHub for version control, code review, CI/CD workflows, and collaborative development.
• Demonstrated heavy use of AI tools such as LLM‑based coding assistants and AI‑driven analytics in a professional setting.
• Compulsion to perform root‑cause analysis.
• Extremely high personal standards for work quality.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer‑paid Group Term Life and AD&D insurance
• Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
• Paid vacation plus paid holidays
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness programs

Salary

Annual Base Salary Range: $150,000 – $200,000 USD