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Millennium · 1 day ago

Quantitative Development - DevOps Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $250K/yr

10+ years exp

Millennium is a financial services firm that manages portfolios and products for optimizing trading and execution. They are seeking a highly driven DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure design, enforce best practices, and improve the research development experience.

Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesHedge Funds

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Leadership: the candidate will design and implement infrastructure, and advise on and enforce best practices to maximize research and development velocity

Research: the candidate is expected to keep up with the state-of-the-art tools that are being used in the field and continuously evaluate what the best tools and practices are for our use cases

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) + Development Experience (DevEx):

Create dependable and reproducible polyglot (Python, native extensions, CUDA) environments for rapidly iterating research projects that can be easily deployed to prod

Enforce best practices and packaging standards for large research codebases

Work with the cloud to help scale research jobs

Infrastructure automation:

Develop CI/CD pipelines for research processes and live trading apps

Develop robust monitoring solutions for infrastructure and deployed applications

Automate recurring jobs with tools like Airflow/Prefect

Performance engineering:

Be familiar with best practices for profiling, monitoring performance to assist with performance investigations

Develop solutions that empower researchers and developers to understand the performance of their code

Qualification

DevOps experiencePythonInfrastructure automationMLOpsLinux internalsPerformance engineeringClean code practicesCommunication skillsLeadership skills

Required

10+ years of experience with research focused DevOps (HPC, ML research, quant research) and experience with high-availability production deployments

Strong communications skills and ability to work with many stakeholders in a team environment

Leadership skills: ability to work with constraints, make decisions under time pressure, and own your work

Experience writing clean, robust, and testable code for automating processes pertaining to infrastructure management and deployment

Familiarity with Linux internals

Understanding of package management, how software is deployed on systems

Strong understanding of Python internals

Familiarity with the latest standards in the packaging ecosystem (uv), build tools like hatchling

Familiarity with tools like: Nix, Conda, Pixi, and containers

Benefits

Discretionary performance bonus

Comprehensive benefits package

Company

Millennium

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Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989, which manages $83.5 billion in assets.

Founded in 1989

New York, New York, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.mlp.com

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