HPC Engineer: $550,000 + Bonus/Benefits - Elite Fintech

Hunter Bond; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking an HPC Systems Engineer in NYC/Chicago to own performance and reliability of a high-end HPC estate. You will manage SLURM scheduling, storage, networking, and hardware, delivering low-latency compute for research and trading teams.

You'll automate root-cause analysis, implement end-to-end infrastructure improvements, and act as the technical face to external vendors and exchanges. This is a hands-on, fast-moving role in a tight-knit, outcome-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years HPC sysadmin/architecture experience.
• Experience with RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux.
• Strong Python scripting skills.
• Able to liaise with external vendors and exchanges.

Responsibilities

• Own performance and reliability across an HPC estate.
• Manage job scheduling, storage, networking, and hardware.
• Automate and root-cause issues end-to-end across research, trading, and enterprise environments.
• Interface with external vendors and exchanges.

Skills

Python scripting

HPC sysadmin

Performance tuning

Root cause analysis

Tools

SLURM

InfiniBand

High-speed networking

Job description

HPC Systems Engineer | NYC | Stealth Quant Fund

One of the most low-key, high-firepower quant trading firms in the game is hiring. No brand recognition flex, no marketing budget - just elite infra, elite people, and a research/trading stack that runs like a Swiss watch. If you know, you know.

The Role

You'll own performance and reliability across a serious HPC estate - job scheduling, storage, networking, hardware - for a firm where milliseconds and research throughput actually move the P&L. This isn't ticket based sysadmin work. You're root-causing, automating, and owning infra end-to-end across research, trading, and enterprise environments.

What you'll touch:

• SLURM job scheduling + workload tuning at scale
• InfiniBand + high-speed Ethernet
• Exchange connectivity upgrades + hardware refresh cycles - real vendor-facing ownership, not just internal tickets

What gets you through the door:

• 5+ years HPC sysadmin/architecture - RHEL/CentOS/Rocky
• Python scripting fluency
• Comfortable being the technical face to external vendors and exchanges, not just internal IT

Why it's worth your time:

• Small, dense team of genuinely brilliant engineers. No bureaucracy
• Infra budget and hardware access most firms can't touch
• Chicago or NYC. no remote dilution, you're in the room where the stack actually lives
• Confidential mandate (happy to share full details on a call)