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Compute Engineering Lead

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: Selby Jennings
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-14
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Unix/Linux, SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 260000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 260000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Location:

Chicago, or New York City, onsite

An elite global Hedge Fund is seeking a hands‑on Compute Engineering Team Lead to lead and actively contribute to the design, automation, and operation of a large‑scale compute platform. As a hands on leader you will spend a significant portion of your time architecting solutions, writing code, troubleshooting infrastructure, and partnering with engineers to solve complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor a team of compute and infrastructure engineers while remaining deeply involved in day-to-day technical work.
  • Design, build, and operate large-scale bare-metal Kubernetes and Linux platforms.
  • Drive automation, tooling, and platform improvements using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
  • Partner with developers, researchers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable compute services.
  • Collaborate with networking, storage, and platform teams to optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency.
  • Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and long‑term platform strategy.
Requirements
  • 8+ years of infrastructure, platform, Linux, or systems engineering experience.
  • Prior experience leading engineers as a manager, tech lead, or team lead.
  • Extensive hands‑on experience operating bare-metal Kubernetes environments at scale.
  • Deep expertise with Linux systems engineering and performance troubleshooting.
  • Strong Python skills for automation and platform tooling.
  • Experience supporting large compute environments consisting of thousands of servers.
  • Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
Preferred Experience
  • Trading firm, hedge fund, quantitative research, or other performance‑sensitive environments.
  • High Performance Computing (HPC), distributed computing, or large‑scale research platforms.
  • Networking knowledge including TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, and low‑latency infrastructure.
  • Experience with Slurm or similar workload schedulers.
  • Exposure to GPU, AI/ML, or large‑scale research compute environments.
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