PDT Partners is a leading quantitative investment manager seeking an exceptional Performance Engineer to join their technology organization. The role involves optimizing systems that support trading strategies, enhancing performance efficiency, and contributing to cost savings and innovation.

Responsibilities:

Analyze and understand system performance to enhance researcher throughput and velocity
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
Free up capacity and reduce costs by improving computational efficiency
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
Identify and act on optimization opportunities across the stack

Performance Engineer

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