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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 Parallel file systems (Lustre / GPFS) + high-perf storage (DDN, Weka, VAST, NetApp, SpectrumScale) InfiniBand + high-speed Ethernet Bare metal provisioning (PXE, DHCP, DNS) + config mgmt (Ansible, Salt, Terraform, xCAT) 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 SLURM/Moab/Torque experience 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) If you are interested in the Engineer role, please apply directly or email jhayne@hunterbond.com
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.