Software Engineering Team Lead (HPC)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Team Lead (HPC/Performance): Leading a specialist group to optimize demanding workloads across CPU, GPU, and memory-intensive platforms for a quantitative research organization with an accent on high-performance computing and system efficiency. Focus on removing bottlenecks in large-scale scientific workloads, designing tuning strategies for Linux internals, and scaling Kubernetes platforms.

Location: Hybrid, London Area, United Kingdom

Company

A technology and research focused organisation operating at the forefront of quantitative innovation, running one of the most demanding compute environments in Europe.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team focused on improving utilisation and efficiency across large compute platforms.
• Perform hands-on profiling and optimization of workloads across CPU, GPU, and memory-intensive platforms.
• Design and implement tuning strategies across operating system, scheduler, and application layers.
• Build reference tools and libraries to help engineers run jobs more reliably and at lower cost.
• Partner with research and infrastructure groups to shape future platform design.
• Establish long-term approaches to monitoring, measurement, and continuous optimisation.

Requirements

• Experience managing engineers or computer scientists in a technical environment.
• Strong background in computer science and performance-focused engineering.
• Proven ability to analyse and optimise distributed or large scale workloads.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals including scheduling, memory behaviour, and networking.
• Exposure to HPC scheduling and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Location: Must be based in the London Area, United Kingdom.

Culture & Benefits

• Highly technical environment that values evidence, precision, and thoughtful engineering.
• Opportunity to work at the core of a quantitative innovation leader.
• Role with direct impact on research output through performance optimization.
• Permanent employment contract.