Compute Operations Engineer

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. Your future role within QRT: The successful candidate will join the global infrastructure team at QRT and you will be responsible for managing and maintaining the QRT Network Infrastructure and Automations for the firm. We implement a strict IAC (Infrastructure as Code) mindsight at QRT, and therefore it is crucial that any candidates must be able to demonstrate operation of complex infrastructure at scale, which have been delivered through a software and automation driven mindset. The team will be focused on maintaining the service availability, reliability, and security of the platform. Developing observability tooling, self-healing/event driven automations, and performing troubleshooting activities. Providing on-going support and operational improvements for existing network infrastructure, whilst building our capability to operate a high-performance compute datacentre. Your present skillsets: * Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across Low Latency LAN, Datacentre LAN, WAN transit, and Internet /cloud connectivity. * Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure and collaborating with vendor support teams when required to perform deep investigation. * Oversight and development of monitoring dashboards, responding proactively to alerts with appropriate level of priority. Taking responsibility for continuous improvement of alerting and the overall observability stack. * Running post incident reviews finding opportunities to improve the availability and reliability of our infrastructure offerings. * Delivery of BAU changes through automation wherever possible, working with research and other infrastructure engineering teams in a highly collaborative manner. * Perform trend analysis using various data sources aiming to seek out potential issues, improve correlation and finding capacity concerns. * Defining SLOs to ensure the high availability of network services and infrastructure. * Ability to provide considerable support of network automation and associated tooling such as CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, Ansible, Python, GitOps practices, amongst others. * Be responsible for releasing into production environments by providing high quality reviews of merges and scheduled pushes of changes/features/capabilities. * Initiative to find opportunities to automate high frequency tasks. Leading the effort to deliver a solution alongside Network Engineering, Infra Automation/DevOps and across functions. * You will have good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tooling such as Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana. * You will stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our automation and practices remains cutting-edge. * Clear networking knowledge at Cisco CCNP level either through demonstrable experience, or verifiable qualifications. QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. On-Call and out of hours work will be a future requirement of this role.

Isomorphic Labs

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease. The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery.  Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture. The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.    ABOUT ISO Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed. Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases. We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design. Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.   YOUR IMPACT  We are building the largest foundation models in biotech and applying them immediately to cure disease. You will play a key role and work at a grand scale to deliver the foundations that make this happen. By partnering with in-house machine learning experts and biotech researchers you will join a team to efficiently scale and plan the base on which our groundbreaking AI is built. WHAT YOU WILL DO  * You will focus on the end-to-end GPU/TPU (accelerator) strategy, designing infrastructure, optimizing performance, and integrating new hardware to leverage advancements. In partnership with our Machine Learning Platform team, regularly work in the environment to push and support deployments. Regularly be building, monitoring and managing cluster deployments. * Support the technical strategy around hardware acquisition and deployment decisions * Drive research and efficiency design around the infrastructure up to the point of service to the ML platforms teams * Contribute to the efforts for consistently improving the reliability of our ML runs * Operate and handle research, development, and production cloud infrastructure and systems * Partner and collaborate with a diverse set of teams incl. science, research, product, business development and operations * Contribute to core technical decisions (e.g. choice of tooling, infrastructure, and architectural design) SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS  Essential: * Possess real world experience of large scale AI/ML workloads * Have experience working in cloud compute infrastructure design, preferably GCP * Possess strong programmings skills * Have significant experience working and deploying in Kubernetes * Familiarity with the Nvidia GPU generations Nice to have: * Have a background in either ML SWE or infrastructure SRE work to build on * Have experience leading and delivering projects to multidisciplinary stakeholders * Familiarity with Google TPU generations * Familiarity with: workload scheduling; machine learning efficiency research; familiarity with ML-driven R&D cycles; familiarity with hardware benchmarking CULTURE AND VALUES We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.  Thoughtful Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day. Brave Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less. Determined Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we. Together Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere. CREATING AN EXTRAORDINARY COMPANY We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know. HYBRID WORKING It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call. Please note that when you submit an application, your data will be processed in line with our privacy policy. >> Click to view other open roles at Isomorphic Labs

Graphcore

ABOUT GRAPHCORE  Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.   It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.   As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.    Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. JOB SUMMARY Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems. THE TEAM An exciting opportunity to join a new team within the Software Operations group. The Build Engineering team is a new function within Software Infrastructure, which focuses on the overall process of building and integration of the Machine Learning Software Stack. You will work closely with the QA and development teams to get an understanding of how our ML SW stack is built, helping to ensure good build practices, and proving that the stack works together and is reproducible in secure, sandboxed environments.   Responsibilities and Duties  * Developing our internal tooling for building, testing and integrating together the ML Software Stack  * Developing tools and technical processes for Software Releases  * Providing guidance to developers on best build practices and dependency management  * Communicating regularly with developers, tech leads, and software architects about aspects of the ML Software Stack  * Working closely with QA and the ML Software Stack to resolve any integration issues  * Contributing fixes towards the ML Software Stack   Essential:  * Knowledge of Python/C++ (or similar language)  * Understanding of Build Processes and Frameworks  * Experience working in Linux environments  * Good communication skills   Desirable:  * Experience with Remote Caching and Execution (e.g. Bazel)  * Experience with Build Tools (e.g. CMake)  * Experience with Testing Frameworks (e.g. PyTest, GoogleTest)  * Experience with Integration Tools (e.g. Buildstream)  * Experience working within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)  * Experience with building and using containers (e.g. Docker, Podman)  * An understanding of Software Architecture patterns  BENEFITS In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications