Cloud HPC Engineer

Location: Hybrid role in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Salary: $125,000–$140,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is presented alongside Capgemini, a global business and technology transformation partner delivering cloud, data, AI, engineering, and industry solutions.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and manage a massive-scale distributed compute grid on AWS or GCP for financial pricing models.
• Design and implement orchestration for distributing millions of pricing tasks across hundreds of thousands of CPU and GPU cores.
• Deploy, manage, and version-control quantitative pricing models in a distributed production environment.
• Monitor and optimize grid performance, cost, and resource utilization.
• Integrate new pricing models with quantitative development teams and ensure market data, trade data, and configurations are available at runtime.
• Build highly available and resilient systems that meet stringent recovery time objectives.

Requirements

• 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and operating applications on massive-scale compute grids.
• Expert hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, including batch processing, containers, and serverless services.
• Strong expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong programming skills in C and Python.
• Background in distributed systems, performance tuning, and infrastructure as code.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, plus strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, including Monte Carlo simulations, VaR calculations, or XVA pricing grids.
• Experience working with quantitative research, trading, and risk management teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade, including 12–25 vacation days, company holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
• Retirement savings plans, including 401(k) in the United States and RRSP in Canada.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs and other locally determined benefits.