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New York, UKfull_timePosted 28 Oct 2026

About the role

<p><strong>Position Overview:</strong></p> <p>This is a Full‑time Junior Software Engineering position&nbsp;for candidates early in their career who are interested in infrastructure, systems, and machine learning platforms at scale.</p> <p>As a Junior Engineer, you will contribute to production ML/HPC infrastructure, working alongside experienced engineers and quantitative researchers. You will gradually take ownership of components and features, learn how large‑scale systems are designed and operated in practice, and contribute production‑quality code that directly supports research and trading workloads.</p> <p>This role is designed to offer strong mentorship while encouraging increasing autonomy and technical ownership over time.</p> <p>As part of the team, you will work on some of the following:</p> <ul> <li data-uuid="a3bb2cfd-84c2-437f-b6b1-666eeb347ba6">Design, implement, and maintain&nbsp;data pipelines&nbsp;for machine learning training and inference.</li> <li data-uuid="1dea6cf2-31e1-4879-a440-eeefb01d0999">Develop and improve&nbsp;workflow orchestration and infrastructure components&nbsp;(e.g.&nbsp;<span class="inline-comment-marker" data-ref="278acfa9-96b1-4856-94d7-4462af13a499">scheduling, resource allocation, data movement, filesystems)</span>.</li> <li data-uuid="25950799-3e77-4121-b1e6-cf8620ba4a1a">Analyze and improve&nbsp;performance and scalability&nbsp;of systems and critical code paths.</li> <li data-uuid="04e92b53-5037-4a5c-9406-78119ed3fc34">Improve the&nbsp;reliability, observability, and usability&nbsp;of ML or HPC platforms.</li> <li data-uuid="6fc96e80-2eef-4a31-9755-1781495a0367">Collaborate with quantitative researchers and developers to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.</li> <li data-uuid="574e8155-4232-41b0-b394-626a961d674f">The opportunity to work on&nbsp;production‑grade ML and HPC infrastructure&nbsp;at scale.</li> <li data-uuid="892ed0dd-f667-4899-be93-22b8bfed5991">Strong mentorship and technical guidance from experienced engineers.</li> <li data-uuid="10f00c86-7a15-42ed-b85a-9f71ad312e93">Gradual ownership of meaningful systems and components.</li> <li data-uuid="76b4cf0c-40ae-4443-8260-39142b8de6d5">Exposure to real‑world performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.</li> <li data-uuid="b180e85b-9b88-4ca4-a207-3889d20d4302">Close collaboration with quantitative researchers and developers.</li> </ul> <p>You will be expected to learn existing systems, contribute independently to ongoing work, and progressively take ownership of well‑defined areas of the platform with support fr

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Squarepoint Capital

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