Founding C++ Systems Engineer

Company

Thunder Compute is GPU cloud platform built on custom virtualization that delivers 5x better margins than competitors. Think of us like VMWare for GPUs, monetized with a cloud platform.

4-person team, $4.5M raised, 100%+ MoM revenue growth. 6 days per week in-person in SF.

We are building a cloud platform backed by our virtualization stack, where we network-attach GPUs over TCP through API remoting. This lets us oversubscribe hardware aggressively; we have a pool of GPUs used by 3-4 times more servers than other platforms.

If building a ChatGPT wrapper or selling out to a hedge fund makes you shudder, there’s a third option.

Role

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

You will spend your days in the weeds of complex, performance-critical systems in production.

Core technical skills:

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

Must haves:

• Self-driven (you'll own your work from day 1)
• High speed-to-output
• Potential for senior leadership as we scale
• Strong communication skills

Preferred

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

Compensation

• Full-time, generous salary + equity.
• You'll report to Co-founder/CTO Brian (ex-Citadel quant dev).