PDT Partners

PDT Partners

Performance Engineer

New York, NY

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
PythonLinuxPyTorch

About the role

  • Performance Engineers at PDT are responsible for deeply understanding and optimizing the systems that enable our trading strategies at scale.
  • Your work directly amplifies researcher velocity and scales our core models, creating massive impact through both cost savings and accelerated innovation.
  • This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our New York City office at a minimum of 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Focus on infrastructure/system-level efficiency, working across Python, PyTorch, OS, networking, storage, and CPU/GPU layers to optimize compute resource utilization
  • Read and understand software layers, providing suggestions/PRs that optimize parts of codebases.
  • Support scaling of core models by ensuring efficient implementation
  • Propose and implement systems to improve performance telemetry
  • Conduct proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations and contribute to system design
  • PDT Partners has a stellar 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Linux and its associated performance engineering toolset.
  • Experience with PyTorch, GPUs and CUDA for optimization.

Compensation

  • The salary range for this role is between $195,000 and $225,000.
  • Factors that may impact the agreed upon salary within the range for a particular candidate include years of experience, level of education obtained, skill set, and other external factors.

Benefits

  • This range is not inclusive of any potential bonus amounts.

Company info

  • Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.
  • Even if you don't think you're a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.

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