Job Description

About

Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one.

Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters.

At SF Compute, our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders.

If we succeed, buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread. Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What  Brent is for oil, we will be for compute.

About the Role

As a trading systems engineer, you’ll build the system that makes trading possible. You’ll be a critical part of the company, working closely together with a small a team of extremely competent engineers who ship at the speed of light.

On a day-to-day basis, you might:

• Create proprietary data feeds and price indices that surface the first real market price for GPU capacity

• Devise exhaustive test frameworks for a system that moves millions of dollars

• Implement key financial reporting pipelines that allow the company to legally operate in hundreds of jurisdictions around the world

• Work on special projects with our financial partners, including futures contract design, market making arrangements, and predictive compute pricing algorithms

This role may be a good fit for you if…

• You’re a talented, high-agency engineer with a penchant for shipping fast

• You have experience building highly fault-tolerant systems where correctness is critical

• You’ve shipped things to prod that received traffic from real users

• You have a mind for finance

• You’re excited by the rare chance to financialize a new commodity

Bonus points if you…

• Have previously worked at or founded a startup

• Have built systems that manage other people’s money

• Have a background in some form of finance or trading

• Are comfortable working in Rust

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 Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any reason, please reach out to us at team@sfcompute.com .

Compensation

$170K – $300K • Offers Equity

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