<div class="content-intro">Aquatic was founded with a shared passion for tackling some of the most complex challenges in one of the world’s most competitive arenas—global financial markets. From the very beginning, we have been driven by a deep commitment to applying cutting-edge scientific research and technological innovation to deliver unparalleled performance. Our journey is one of continuous growth and exploration, marked by a spirit of curiosity and relentless drive for excellence. </div>Aquatic Capital Management is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team. Systems Engineer Infrastructure & Research Computing Aquatic Capital Management • Chicago, IL • Full-Time About the Role <ul> <li>We are hiring a Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant architectural ownership, and real accountability for how our research and trading systems compute.</li> <li>You will own and evolve the compute infrastructure that powers quantitative research and production trading at Aquatic: our on-premise grid, hybrid cloud compute (GCP and AWS), GPU workloads, storage systems, and the automation that ties it all together.</li> </ul> What You Will Do Grid & High-Performance Computing <ul> <li>Own and evolve Aquatic's Slurm and Ray cluster infrastructure across on-prem and GCP — supporting research and trading workloads including fitting, tuning, backtesting, feature computation, and market data processing.</li> <li>Drive architectural improvements to capacity, scheduling efficiency, and throughput across the full footprint, including GPU computation. </li> <li>Design and maintain the connectivity and automation between on-prem and cloud environments</li> <li>Evaluate and implement newer compute paradigms as research needs evolve </li> </ul> Storage & Performance <ul> <li>Own high-performance storage systems including VAST (NFS and S3-compatible), ensuring data access is fast and reliable across research, trading, and build workloads.</li> <li>Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks at the intersection of storage, network, and compute.</li> </ul> Developer Experience & Automation <ul> <li>Design and maintain provisioning systems for complex compute resources and datacenter onboarding.</li> <li>Own and improve CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions) as well as the development toolchain for the broader engineering organization.</li> </ul> Technical Leadership & Mentorship <ul> <li>Serve as the go-to architect for infrastructure decisions; provide technical direction and help establish vision across the team.</li> <li>Pair with and mentor earlier-career Systems & Software Engineers, helping them develop sound instincts and grow their skills.</li> <li>Diagnose and resolve the hardest, most obscure system issues that others cannot get to the bottom of.</li> </ul> What We Are Looking For Required <ul> <li>10+ years of experience in systems engineering, infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.</li> <li>Dee

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