Quant Platform Engineer for Research & Trading

Acquire Me; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me is looking for an individual passionate about building and scaling distributed systems and high-performance computing platforms. You will develop platform services that support large-scale computational workloads and help drive quantitative research and trading decisions.

The role offers direct impact on the critical infrastructure relied upon by world-class researchers and traders, providing numerous opportunities to influence technical direction and collaborate in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and systems design experience.
• Experience building distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure platforms.
• Ability to lead projects and take ownership from architecture through deployment.

Responsibilities

• Building and scaling distributed systems that support large-scale computational workloads.
• Developing platform services across job scheduling, workflow orchestration, cluster management, and data processing.
• Designing and improving compute and data platforms used by researchers globally.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Distributed systems

Systems design

Problem-solving

Experience with Rust

Experience with C++

High-performance computing

GPUs

CUDA

Job description

Acquire Me is looking for an individual passionate about building and scaling distributed systems and high-performance computing platforms. You will develop platform services that support large-scale computational workloads and help drive quantitative research and trading decisions.

The role offers direct impact on the critical infrastructure relied upon by world-class researchers and traders, providing numerous opportunities to influence technical direction and collaborate in a dynamic environment.