# 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

- **Id**: 823282
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aquatic-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-08T18:37:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T22:09:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 184
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6245
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Company events, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 669533
- **Name**: Aquatic
- **Domain**: aquatic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aquatic-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 65
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.583
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Dask** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 183

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T13:36:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 10

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.186
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 183
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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