Software Engineer Compute Market
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 150 - 250
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Were building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.
When people finance GPU clusters the datacenters housing them and the infrastructure powering them they need offtake - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.
Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders dont want to take on the risk that cluster developers cant repay their loan and cluster developers really dont want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.
If you dont mitigate this customer risk theres a bubble. This isnt SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase its game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market
Otherwise as AI scales compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian cant realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.
So thats what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.
About the Role
As an engineer working on our compute market youll build software that buys sells and prices cutting-edge HPC hardware worth billions of dollars. Youll be a critical part of the company working closely together with a small team of extremely competent engineers on systems that move tens of millions of GPU-hours per day.
Projects you might work on include
Optimizing our surplus-maximizing shape-packing solver
Creating automated strategies for compute providers to sell their clusters
Scaling our quoting APIs to thousands of orders per second
Inventing mechanisms for auctions for a new asset class with unique constraints
Designing a futures contract that allows the market to hedge risk on DC buildouts
This role may be a good fit for you if
Youre a talented high-agency engineer who likes to ship fast
You have experience building fault-tolerant systems where correctness is critical
You appreciate the value of extensive testing and good documentation
Youre excited by the rare chance to financialize a new commodity
Are comfortable working in Rust
Bonus points if you
Have previously worked at or founded a startup
Have built systems that manage other peoples money
Have some background in finance trading bespoke marketplaces or combinatorial optimization
Benefits
Generous equity grant
Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
Visa Sponsorships
Yes we sponsor visas and work permits
Retirement matching
We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
Medical dental & vision
We offer competitive medical dental vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
Time off
We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10 observed holidays
Parental leave
We offer biological adoptive and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
Daily lunch
We cover lunch daily for employees
Unlimited office book budget
You can buy as many books for the office as you want
The San Francisco Compute Company is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.
We make employment decisions based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion belief national origin social or ethical origin age physical mental or sensory disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service HIV status family medical history or genetic information family or parental status including pregnancy or any other status protected by law.
We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history in accordance with local state and federal laws including San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance and Californias ban-the-box laws.
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Key Skills
- Microsoft Access
- SQL
- Analysis Skills
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Securities Law
- Data Mining
- Investment Banking
- Market Research
- Microsoft Excel
- Visual Basic
- Bloomberg
- Data Analysis Skills
