What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding C++ Systems Engineer position at Thunder Compute?
Company
Thunder Compute is the lowest cost, easiest GPU cloud for developers. We’re a 4-person team with $4.5M raised from top tier investors including Y Combinator.\ \ There are two parts to our company. 1) we are a cloud platform where customers can rent GPUs just like they would from Coreweave, Lambda, AWS, etc., and 2) we are building virtualization software to use GPUs 3x more efficiently than these competitors.\ \ This huge efficiency gain allows our cloud to run at higher margins than competitors without any CapEx.
Role
You'll work on the C core of our virtualization stack: performance optimization, systems debugging, and research into oversubscription, checkpointing, and related problems.
You will spend your days bouncing between the weeds of complex, performance-critical systems in production, and implementing customer-facing product improvements. This work is not easy - but if you’re the right candidate, this is a feature, not a bug.
Core Technical Skills
Thunder Compute is the lowest cost, easiest GPU cloud for developers. We’re a 4-person team with $4.5M raised from top tier investors including Y Combinator.\ \ There are two parts to our company. 1) we are a cloud platform where customers can rent GPUs just like they would from Coreweave, Lambda, AWS, etc., and 2) we are building virtualization software to use GPUs 3x more efficiently than these competitors.\ \ This huge efficiency gain allows our cloud to run at higher margins than competitors without any CapEx.
Role
You'll work on the C core of our virtualization stack: performance optimization, systems debugging, and research into oversubscription, checkpointing, and related problems.
You will spend your days bouncing between the weeds of complex, performance-critical systems in production, and implementing customer-facing product improvements. This work is not easy - but if you’re the right candidate, this is a feature, not a bug.
Core Technical Skills
- Top 0.1% C ability
- Experience optimizing NIC/GPU performance
- Deep understanding of low-level networking, compilers, and similar systems
- Experience in latency-sensitive environments
- You’ve got the dog in you: you will own your work and be responsible for production systems from day 1
- High speed-to-output
- Willingness to assume a senior leadership role as we scale
- Strong communication skills under pressure
- CS Bachelor’s degree from top 50 US university, 3.5 GPA
- 1 year of experience at a trading firm (Citadel, Jane Street, etc.), hardware company (NVIDIA, SambaNova), systems research or similar
- You'll report to Co-founder/CTO Brian (ex-Citadel quant dev)
- This role is full-time, in-person in SF
Salary : $170,000 - $210,000