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C++ Systems Engineer

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Thunder Compute

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C++ Systems Engineer (Full-Time)

Company

Thunder Compute is a GPU cloud platform built on custom virtualization that delivers 5x better margins than competitors.

4-person team, seed-funded (approaching Series A), 100%+ MoM revenue growth. 100% in-person in Atlanta, relocating to SF or NYC within 6 months.

The technical challenge: We network-attach GPUs over TCP through API remoting, decoupling GPUs from instances. This lets us oversubscribe hardware aggressively; while Lambda Labs needs 100 GPUs for 100 users, we need 20. Making this virtualization layer stable and performant at scale is the hard problem we are solving.

Role

You will work on the C++ core of our cloud platform: performance optimization, systems debugging, and research into oversubscription, checkpointing, and related problems.

If you live in the weeds of complex, performance-critical systems, this is your role.

Responsibilities

Core technical skills:

  1. Top 0.1% C++ ability
  2. Experience optimizing NIC/GPU performance
  3. Deep understanding of low-level networking, compilers, or similar systems
  4. Experience in latency-sensitive environments

Must haves:

  1. High potential for senior leadership as we scale
  2. Strong communication skills
  3. Self-driven (you will own your work from day 1)

Preferred

  1. CS PhD/Masters from top 50 US university, 3.5+ GPA (Bachelor's required)
  2. 1+ years at trading firm, hardware company (NVIDIA, SambaNova), or similar

Compensation

  1. Full-time, salaried + 0.5-1% equity. We will relocate our HQ for the right person.
  2. You will report to Co-founder/CTO Brian (ex-Citadel quant dev).