Systems Engineer (mrgn research)

mrgn research is an integrated proprietary trading firm focused on liquidity provisioning, quantitative trading, and building resilient systems with world class teams

Our team consists of experienced professionals with backgrounds in HFT, cyber security, robotics, quantitative research, machine learning, MLOps, DevOps.

Today we are one of the most active trading firms across performant blockchains. We have a flat organizational structure and a need for speed.

Requirements

Role Description

• Comfortable using systems languages (especially C/C++) in a Linux environment
• Strong understanding of computer systems e.g. operating systems, networks, performance optimization, etc
• Experience in multi threaded programming
• Experience in creating multi threaded applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ideally some experience in developing low latency systems

Bonus

• Familiar with x86_64 architecture
• Experience writing lock-free concurrent code
• Experience with Rust
• Familiar with distributed systems
• Familiar with blockchain and associated consensus/communication mechanisms
• Comfortable delving into the hardware, combing through core dumps, and using tools like gdb, valgrind, etc

Benefits

• Ultra-competitive salary, benefits, and ownership

• Work with world-class talent from HFT, cyber security, robotics, digital identity, and AI
• We prioritize working in-person when possible, often traveling together / to each other
• Work very closely with a range of L1/2 teams and defi protocols
• We have an integrated, coherent culture. We have fun, we work hard, we like to win