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# HPC Systems Engineer at Radix Trading Experienced Job Board

- **Company:** Radix Trading Experienced Job Board
- **Location:** Chicago Illinois, United States / New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2025-08-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/radixexperienced/jobs/8121869002

## Job description

Radix Trading is seeking a seasoned HPC Systems Engineer with a passion for Linux, HPC systems and research infrastructure to join us. This role requires the ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, navigate networking and system alerts, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has experience leading projects end-to-end, fluency in scripting languages, and a proven track record of solving complex technical problems.

Job Functions:

- Own monitoring and performance tuning across HPC applications, SLURM job scheduler, networking, storage, and hardware to optimize workload efficiency.
- Perform root-cause analysis to develop sustainable automated solutions.
- Support and troubleshoot alerts and errors with savvy communication skills to interact with external entities and internal counterparts.
- Keep up communication with new and existing external vendors on technical infrastructure work.
- Keep up communication with new and existing external business interfaces --- day-to-day operation, planning connectivity, and exchange upgrades.
- Oversee communication with others internally - project management across different functions to plan exchange upgrades, hardware refreshes, and other improvements/rollouts.
- Build out and support research, trading, and enterprise infrastructure.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of HPC system administration/architecture including RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Systems
- Experience with job scheduler and resource management tools such as SLURM, Moab, or Torque
- Knowledge of network storage systems such as DDN, IBM SpectrumScale, NetApp, Weka, or Vast
- Knowledge of parallel file systems such as Lustre or Spectrum Scale (GPFS)
- Experience working with InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet
- Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as xCAT, Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
- Exposure to bare metal provisioning — including DHCP, DNS, PXE Boot
- Competence in Python, able to edit and create scripts

## About Radix Trading Experienced Job Board

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Radix Trading is a privately-funded, research-driven proprietary trading firm that uses statistical methodologies and machine learning to trade on major electronic markets globally.
- **Entity Type**: Private (privately-funded, does not accept outside investments)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (founded by industry veterans who previously built and managed some of the most profitable trading teams in the world)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading
- Target customers: B2B (operates on major electronic exchanges; does not serve external clients as it trades its own capital)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building a new type of trading firm dedicated to research through targeted collaboration and vast ingenuity."

## Products & Services
- **Proprietary Trading Strategies**: Radix develops and executes automated trading strategies across North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on statistical research rather than pure speed (HFT). The firm monetizes its research through trading.
- **Automated Research Platform**: A cutting-edge, proprietary technology platform that supports rapid idea inception to execution, enabling continuous enhancement of trading strategies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately-held, no outside investments)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (private firm; revenue and funding not disclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None (privately-funded, does not accept outside investments)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: approximately 150 employees (+6.6% YoY)
  - LinkedIn followers: 15,019 (+48.1% yearly growth)
  - Offices in Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam
  - Actively hiring across multiple roles (Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Technologist, Quantitative Business Analyst, HPC Systems Engineer, Network Engineer)
  - Talent sources include top firms like Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Google, and top universities (University of Chicago, Princeton, Stanford)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Research-First Culture**: Radix emphasizes statistical research and machine learning over pure speed, differentiating from traditional HFT firms.
- **Open Collaboration**: A culture of openness enables fast turnaround from idea inception to execution, with no silos or barriers to accessing internal data and tools.
- **Top Talent Pool**: The team blends interdisciplinary academics (undergraduate, PhD, Postdoc, Professors) from top universities with experienced researchers and senior engineers from Silicon Valley tech companies and supercomputer specialists.
- **Experienced Leadership**: Led by industry veterans who previously built and managed some of the most profitable trading teams in the world.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued Research-Driven Growth**: The firm sees continued opportunities in using statistical research to "outsmart the competition," rather than relying on the diminishing returns of high-frequency trading.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively recruiting researchers, technologists, and business analysts across all three office locations, with a focus on highly analytical minds from math, physics, computer science, and engineering backgrounds.
- **Global Expansion**: Already operating on major electronic markets across North America, Europe, and Asia, with a growing presence in Amsterdam.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a culture of openness and collaboration, with a hacker's approach to testing ideas. The firm values "persistent drive to improve," "creative problem solving," "team mindset," and "orientation for making money."
- **Impact**: Employees can "directly affect our bottom line within your first few weeks on the team." The work provides "near-immediate feedback on your best ideas."
- **Compensation**: Competitive salary plus quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution towards success of others and the firm.
- **Work Environment**: Offices in Chicago (River North), New York (One World Trade Center), and Amsterdam. The firm offers a hybrid/office presence (roles are listed as Chicago, New York, or Amsterdam).
- **Employee Rating**: 4.3/5.0 on LinkedIn (23 reviews), with Compensation rated 4.6/5.0.
- **Notable Perks**: Access to cutting-edge proprietary technology, a supercomputer-like research platform, and the opportunity to work alongside top talent from Jane Street, Citadel, Google, and leading universities.

## Sources
1. [radixtrading.co](https://radixtrading.co/)
2. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/radixexperienced)
3. [LinkedIn - Radix Trading LLC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/radix-trading)
4. [Quantitative Researcher Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/radixexperienced/jobs/6629844002)

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