Squarepoint Capital
Junior SRE
Eligibility
- Candidates early in their career
- Degree qualification or equivalent experience
Early-career full-time Junior Software Engineer position focused on ML/HPC infrastructure, system design and production-quality code supporting quantitative research and trading workloads, including mentorship and increasing ownership.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines for machine learning training and inference.
- Develop and improve workflow orchestration and infrastructure components (e.g. scheduling, resource allocation, data movement, filesystems).
- Analyze and improve performance and scalability of systems and critical code paths.
- Improve the reliability, observability, and usability of ML or HPC platforms.
- Collaborate with quantitative researchers and developers to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
- Learn existing systems, contribute independently to ongoing work, and progressively take ownership of platform areas.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong foundations in computer science (algorithms, data structures, OS, distributed systems).
- Experience developing software in Python, C++, or Rust.
- Familiarity with writing, testing, and maintaining production-quality code.
- Ability to reason about technical problems and communicate effectively.
- Interest in infrastructure, performance, and large-scale systems.
- Exposure to machine learning workflows or ML platforms.
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- Introductory knowledge of distributed systems, HPC, or cloud platforms.
- Experience with profiling, benchmarking, or performance analysis.
Skills
- Python
- C++
- Rust
- Linux
- Distributed systems
- Machine learning workflows
- Performance analysis
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