Systems Engineer

Aquatic was founded with a shared passion for tackling some of the most complex challenges in one of the world’s most competitive arenas—global financial markets. From the very beginning, we have been driven by a deep commitment to applying cutting-edge scientific research and technological innovation to deliver unparalleled performance. Our journey is one of continuous growth and exploration, marked by a spirit of curiosity and relentless drive for excellence. Aquatic Capital Management is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team. Systems Engineer Infrastructure & Research Computing Aquatic Capital Management • Chicago, IL • Full-Time About the Role We are hiring a Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant architectural ownership, and real accountability for how our research and trading systems compute. You will own and evolve the compute infrastructure that powers quantitative research and production trading at Aquatic: our on-premise grid, hybrid cloud compute (GCP and AWS), GPU workloads, storage systems, and the automation that ties it all together. What You Will Do Grid & High-Performance Computing Own and evolve Aquatic's Slurm and Ray cluster infrastructure across on-prem and GCP — supporting research and trading workloads including fitting, tuning, backtesting, feature computation, and market data processing. Drive architectural improvements to capacity, scheduling efficiency, and throughput across the full footprint, including GPU computation. Design and maintain the connectivity and automation between on-prem and cloud environments Evaluate and implement newer compute paradigms as research needs evolve Storage & Performance Own high-performance storage systems including VAST (NFS and S3-compatible), ensuring data access is fast and reliable across research, trading, and build workloads. Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks at the intersection of storage, network, and compu