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