Software Engineers – HPC / Distributed Systems

Oxford Knight

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Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted
June 11, 2026

Job Description

Unique opportunity to join this hugely successful prop trading firm as they scale significantly, building out a brand-new central trading team.

With major investment in GPUs and compute infrastructure, the aim is to build from scratch a best-in-class platform, redefining how alpha is generated. To do this, they’re looking for exceptional HPC/Distributed Systems Engineers to sit within a pod-like structure – but with much more shared capital, strategic influence and collaboration across a centralised book.


Alongside the infrastructure investment, what makes this opportunity especially interesting is the level of commitment behind it:

  • Greenfield environment with the opportunity to build the research stack from scratch

  • Strong autonomy and ability to shape direction from an early stage

  • Deep learning-first philosophy across research and modelling
  • Experience in the following is ideal:

  • Distributed training (e.g. XGBoost...