kdb+/q Expert

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a deep kdb+/q expert to join our team on a part-time contract basis in Portland, OR, with hybrid or fully remote options. You will dive into kdb+ internals, optimize queries, and extend the C API while collaborating with our hardware acceleration group.

Ideal candidates will have expert-level kdb+/q skills, experience with engine internals and query planning, and the ability to analyze performance bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• Expert-level kdb+/q
• Engine internals
• Query planning/optimization
• C API extensions
• Performance analysis

Skills

kdb+/q

Query optimization

Engine internals

C API

Performance analysis

Job description

the company | kdb+/q Expert | Contract (part-time OK) | Portland, OR (Hybrid) or Remote

We're building a heterogeneous execution platform to accelerate data analytics and ML workloads, and we're looking for a deep kdb+/q expert to work alongside our hardware acceleration team. You'll focus on kdb+ internals, query optimization, and the C API, helping us understand how queries execute under the hood, where the bottlenecks are, and how to integrate acceleration into kdb+ workflows.

Looking for: expert-level kdb+/q, engine internals, query planning/optimization, C API extensions, performance analysis. Nice to have: exposure to hardware acceleration concepts.