Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Senior WAN Engineer with experience designing, deploying, and scaling high-capacity WAN to support our evolving HPC research and algorithmic trading application requirements.

The WAN Engineering Team designs and engineers the Global Wide Area Network (WAN) Infrastructure that supports our massive HPC data centers as well as our trading infrastructure globally. Our mandate is to architect, optimize, and scale the high-performance LAN and WAN infrastructure that interconnects our globally distributed, large-scale on-prem data centers and trading colos, enabling them to grow rapidly and operate at peak performance in support of HRT’s demanding computational workloads. 

Responsibilities

• Strategic network design, product selection, routing, configuration and troubleshooting for our next-generation WAN
• Work closely with our Networks and HPC Systems teams, among others, to scale our WAN to meet HRT’s evolving research and trading application requirements
• Overall capacity planning for the Data Center WAN
• Implement fully programmatically-driven network architectures using Python and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Saltstack)
• Collaborate with others in the network team to solve cross-disciplinary problems
• Analyze traffic patterns and optimize bandwidth usage
• Provide detailed documentation 
• Mentor others as a senior resource 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience with carrier-scale global WAN design
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads and manage implementation schedules with  meticulous attention to detail 
• Proactive problem-solver with the technical skills and hands-on mentality to tackle challenges in the field
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a focus on continuous improvement, with the humility to own and learn from mistakes
• Strong expertise in:
• Advanced BGP (BGP-SR, MP-BGP, BGP-LU, Extended Communities, UCMP), eBGP Route Server
• Segment Routing (SR-MPLS, SR-TE, BGP Prefix SID, Flex-Algo, TI-LFA, Fast Re-route)
• MPLS (LDP, RSVP-TE)
• OSPF/IS-IS
• QOS in WAN Environments
• Network and QOS Telemetry
• Multi-WAN vendor expertise (Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Other)
• Packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with public cloud networks such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK is desirable
• Optical OLS/DWDM experience is desirable 

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Senior WAN Engineer with experience designing, deploying, and scaling high-capacity WAN to support our evolving HPC research and algorithmic trading application requirements.

The WAN Engineering Team designs and engineers the Global Wide Area Network (WAN) Infrastructure that supports our massive HPC data centers as well as our trading infrastructure globally. Our mandate is to architect, optimize, and scale the high-performance LAN and WAN infrastructure that interconnects our globally distributed, large-scale on-prem data centers and trading colos, enabling them to grow rapidly and operate at peak performance in support of HRT’s demanding computational workloads. 

Responsibilities

• Strategic network design, product selection, routing, configuration and troubleshooting for our next-generation WAN
• Work closely with our Networks and HPC Systems teams, among others, to scale our WAN to meet HRT’s evolving research and trading application requirements
• Overall capacity planning for the Data Center WAN
• Implement fully programmatically-driven network architectures using Python and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Saltstack)
• Collaborate with others in the network team to solve cross-disciplinary problems
• Analyze traffic patterns and optimize bandwidth usage
• Provide detailed documentation 
• Mentor others as a senior resource 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience with carrier-scale global WAN design
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads and manage implementation schedules with  meticulous attention to detail 
• Proactive problem-solver with the technical skills and hands-on mentality to tackle challenges in the field
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a focus on continuous improvement, with the humility to own and learn from mistakes
• Strong expertise in:
• Advanced BGP (BGP-SR, MP-BGP, BGP-LU, Extended Communities, UCMP), eBGP Route Server
• Segment Routing (SR-MPLS, SR-TE, BGP Prefix SID, Flex-Algo, TI-LFA, Fast Re-route)
• MPLS (LDP, RSVP-TE)
• OSPF/IS-IS
• QOS in WAN Environments
• Network and QOS Telemetry
• Multi-WAN vendor expertise (Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Other)
• Packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with public cloud networks such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK is desirable
• Optical OLS/DWDM experience is desirable 

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

We are looking for engineers to power Hudson River Trading's continued expansion into global markets. As an engineer based out of our Hong Kong office, you will play a critical role in the process of establishing HRT's presence in Asia-Pacific markets and work closely with our algo and operations teams to ensure the continued success of our trading. You will also be deeply involved in the continuous, ongoing process of optimizing trading in markets HRT already has a presence in.

In this role, you'll be expected to own the process of entering new markets and manage market changes over time. With this responsibility, you'll gain broad exposure to both the technical and business aspects of our trading operation. It is difficult to overstate the impact of this role - you will immediately contribute to the bottom line as HRT begins trading in markets it previously had no presence in and HRT’s trading in existing markets becomes more profitable.

Profile

• In your spare time you: code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer related... you'll find like-minded people here.
• You possess a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• You are capable of working independently as well as part of a team
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• Can look at code, figure out how it works, and how to make it better
• Can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do​

Qualifications

• C++ experience required
• Familiarity with UNIX operating systems and comfort at a command line
• Must be fluent (reading, writing and conversing) in English
• Adept at working independently and in self-management
• Experience developing market data and order entry systems a plus

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Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Junior Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Junior Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities

• Manage worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by contributing to the planning and execution of complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Plan and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Improve documentation and reduce technical debt
• Benchmark the performance of the trading stack, working with subject matter experts across the organization
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience managing Linux systems: you can install packages, manage users, control services, and know where to look for system logs, and you understand TCP/IP networking, default gateways, and how to debug connectivity problems
• Familiarity installing and configuring Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Basic familiarity with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – some knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Proven programming experience: you don't just know what big-O notation is, you've also built working software and can explain and defend your design
• Basic shell (bash) scripting experience
• Experience using JIRA
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Experience with production systems, as well as some cloud experience in AWS or GCP, is desirable but not required

The estimated base salary range for this position is 120,000 to 160,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking curious, thoughtful engineers who enjoy working with data and solving real-world technical problems to join our growing Market Structure Analysis team. In this role as a Quantitative Latency Engineer, you’ll apply data-driven methodologies to understand and optimize trading technology and real-time interactions with financial markets across the globe, spanning traditional and crypto exchanges. No prior finance experience is needed! 

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to impactful improvements to HRT’s low-latency trading systems
• Analyze large datasets to understand how complex systems and networks behave in real-world conditions, such as exchange technology and performance of HRT systems
• Build Python-based tools and scripts to collect, clean, and visualize data in a clear and actionable way
• Design and run experiments to measure the impact of changes and identify opportunities for improvement
• Collaborate closely with HRT’s Algorithm Development, Trading Technology, and Business Development teams to discover, research, and implement improvements to HRT’s architecture
• Liaise with exchanges globally to better understand their technology and stay up to date on changes and improvements

Qualifications

• A technical degree or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Python and Pandas 
• Proficiency in data analytics including statistics, data visualization, and working with large data sets
• Strong curiosity about how financial systems, networks, and cutting-edge technology work, and a willingness to learn new concepts quickly
• Ability to think analytically, ask insightful questions, and approach unfamiliar problems methodically
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and an interest in collaborating with others

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Physical Design Engineer with a broad, versatile skillset to join our growing Hardware team. In this role, you will help deliver performance-critical ASICs and advance our physical design methodologies on leading-edge process nodes.

The Hardware team at HRT builds high-performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low-latency trading decisions on global markets. We create custom solutions across the full spectrum of speed and sophistication, from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Drive design-for-test (DFT) methodologies and implementation 
• Contribute to physical implementation, from RTL handoff through GDSII on advanced process nodes 
• Partner on floorplanning and physical optimization for high-performance, latency-critical designs
• Close timing across multiple modes and corners while optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA)
• Diagnose and resolve physical design issues such as timing bottlenecks, congestion, and IR/EM violations
• Build, maintain, and improve repeatable, automated physical design flows
• Develop scripts and tooling to improve productivity, robustness, and insight into design behavior
• Collaborate closely with RTL, architecture, and other hardware engineers to influence design decisions early

Qualifications

• Experience working in high-performance ASIC design environments
• Strong fundamentals in digital logic, circuit design, and process technology
• Familiarity with DFT concepts and testing methodologies
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Tcl, shell), including parsing and analyzing tool outputs
• Ability to design robust methodologies, diagnose complex failures, and improve physical design flows
• Applied use of statistics in analyzing timing, power, or design data (preferred)
• Hands-on experience with static timing analysis and timing closure methodologies
• Expertise using industry-standard physical design and signoff tools (e.g., Innovus, PrimeTime)

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Deployment Engineer to join our global Systems and Network teams. In this role, you will help streamline our day-to-day data centre related work to ensure that HRT’s world-class trading environment remains resilient and high-performing. Based in Singapore, you will be on the front line for our global network infrastructure, taking ownership of maintaining the infrastructure that keeps HRT’s trading systems running 24/7.

This is an execution-focussed role that requires a get-it-done attitude and a high level of dependability. You will be responsible for hands-on infrastructure management, including hardware troubleshooting, data center deployment work and coordinating with remote hands. You will work closely with senior engineers to orchestrate deployments and resolve issues, providing an essential service allowing our engineering teams to scale.

The ideal candidate is a disciplined and proactive technologist who thrives in a high-stakes production environment. If you are a hard worker who enjoys the hands-on side of technology and is looking to make an impact within a premier global trading firm, we’d love to speak with you.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for remote hands and data center technicians to coordinate hardware installations and repairs
• Perform routine server and network hardware maintenance (e.g. troubleshooting, cabling work, component replacements, etc.)
• Ensure network circuits are operational, including implementing cross connects and troubleshooting with carriers on link issues
• Execute operating system installations and basic server configurations following detailed documentation
• Manage physical asset tracking and inventory across global data center locations
• Script basic solutions to automate routine checkups and operational reporting
• Work closely with the Trading Operations team to coordinate and execute scheduled maintenance activities
• Troubleshoot connectivity and hardware failures in a live production environment

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of relevant experience in a hands-on technical role preferred
• Basic network administration skillset, including the ability to log in to switches, routers, and firewalls to run basic commands
• Fundamental understanding of Linux/UNIX command line tools and basic system administration
• Practical experience with hardware troubleshooting (Servers, NICs, SFPs, and different types of cabling)
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts and circuit troubleshooting
• Experience with shell scripting (Bash) or Python for basic task automation is a plus
• Ability to follow complex technical instructions with extreme attention to detail
• Comfort working outside of standard business hours (evenings/weekends) to support a global, 24-hour trading cycle
• Strong communication skills in order to provide clear updates to stakeholders across time zones
• A disciplined approach to production environments
• Background in trading infrastructure teams or tech companies with significant data center footprint, is a plus

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a hands-on Data Center Technician with experience in data center operations to join our Trading Infrastructure (SysTrade) team. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, working with cutting-edge technology, and thrive in a fast-paced, global environment, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, you’ll play a critical part in building and maintaining the high-performance infrastructure that powers HRT’s global trading operations. You’ll be responsible for everything from racking and cabling to planning large-scale deployments—ensuring our colocations remain robust, efficient, and low-latency.

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and document data center installations, upgrades, and maintenance projects
• Travel to regional and remote data centers to lead infrastructure projects and ongoing operational work
• Oversee and coordinate remote hands tasks
• Install and document racks, structured cabling, servers, switches, PDUs, and other hardware per HRT’s regional and global standards
• Manage equipment inventory, forecast hardware needs, and coordinate logistics
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, vendors, and partners to ensure infrastructure uptime and performance

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in high-availability or financial colocation environments
• Strong understanding of data center power systems, redundancy, and infrastructure design
• Deep knowledge of copper and fiber cabling, including best practices for structured cabling
• Familiarity with rack-level cooling and airflow management
• Proven experience building PC/server hardware—bonus points for overclocking expertise
• Comfortable using Linux (especially bash) and troubleshooting serial console access
• Proficient with hand tools and able to lift up to 30 lbs of equipment
• Bonus: Python or shell scripting experience
• Clear communicator who enjoys cross-team collaboration
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities under minimal supervision
• Proactive problem solver with a passion for learning and evolving alongside new technologies
• Willing to travel regularly and thrive in a dynamic, hands-on environment

The estimated base salary range for this position is 80,000 to 120,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Senior Telecom Procurement Specialist to join our growing infrastructure team. In this role, you will help procure, build, and optimize the physical backbone of HRT’s global trading infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a commercial engineer who can negotiate fiercely, but also geeks out over optical hardware specs and treats an inventory database like a perfectly calibrated 3D printer. If you view a global network footprint as the ultimate hardware puzzle, love to tinker with hardware in your spare time, and get a thrill from mapping complex physical topologies – like understanding exactly how fiber runs under streets and across oceans – this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation: Procure global circuits, dark fiber, colocation space, and custom wireless networks. Negotiate complex MSAs and SLAs with global carriers and niche infrastructure providers.
• Engineering Partnership: Act as the commercial bridge to our Network & Ops teams. You must speak the physical layer's language: optical budgets, DWDM hardware quirks, Layer 2/3 routing, and strict route diversity.
• Inventory & Automation: Partner with developers to build elegant, automated tooling for HRT’s infrastructure, and champion a "System of Record" mindset for inventory management. If messy spreadsheets make your eyes twitch, you'll fit right in. 
• Lifecycle & Optimization: Own the asset lifecycle, end-to-end. Gather requirements from trading teams, hold vendors accountable to delivery milestones, overhaul underperforming circuits, and retire legacy routes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in telecom procurement, capacity management, or network operations. Proprietary trading, capital markets, or Tier-1 carrier experience is highly preferred.
• Deep conceptual understanding of fiber optics, Ethernet, and colocation, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation.
• Passionate about strict inventory databases, with the ability to learn new skills and help build elegant systems of record.
• Exceptional commercial acumen and contract redlining skills, with the ability to partner seamlessly with Legal to execute agreements efficiently and with minimal risk.
• Ability to work autonymously, with a can-do, "roll-up-your-sleeves" mentality.
• Ability to travel, build on-the-ground vendor relationships, and navigate regional market nuances.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Junior Crypto Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join our Trade Operations (TradeOps) team in our London office. This team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment, one of the most robust and efficient electronic trading platforms in the world. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s crypto trading as well as handling related risk, regulatory, and development tasks. The TradeOps team focuses on automating common tasks and preparing for the unexpected: your day could consist of debugging to get a process running in time for the market open, making a difficult on-the-spot decision that balances compliance, risk, and PnL during trading hours, or coordinating the technical rollout of a new trading strategy. 

Being a member of TradeOps at HRT supporting crypto means working on a tight-knit, highly productive team. We're looking for someone who loves technology, is passionate about crypto, and wants to work on a broad range of projects using whatever tools best solve the problem at hand. Excellent cross-functional communication skills are a must, along with a can-do attitude.

In a high-performance environment, immediate awareness of and reaction to systems and trading issues is essential. That’s where HRT’s Electronic Trading Support Engineers come in. You’ll be responsible for onboarding new crypto markets, managing new initiatives, and ensuring a smooth trading day. You will be the first line of defense when issues arise, and the subject matter expert on recent changes to the production trading platform. The TradeOps team’s scope covers everything from systems infrastructure to compliance, risk management, overnight clearing, and performance improvement. 

Please note: this role requires working during 3PM - 11PM GMT / 4PM - 12AM BST hours, with weekends/holidays alternating among the team.

Responsibilities

• Support live crypto trading and other asset classes as needed
• Handle order flow from HRT’s trading desks
• Respond to external market alerts and outages
• Interface with exchanges & other external parties to support trading

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role or internship
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• Working knowledge of UNIX systems, Bash, and Python
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with developers and traders
• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Excited to work independently in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Strong interest in crypto – you follow the digital assets space in your spare time
• Understanding of various financial products, including equities, crypto products, and derivatives is a plus
• Overall interest in market structure and the trading industry
• Series 7 or 57 certification or a willingness to obtain certification
• Ability to work during 3PM - 11PM GMT / 4PM - 12AM BST hours, with weekends/holidays alternating among the team

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our growing Trading Systems Infrastructure team. This team designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that powers our global trading, and is responsible for ensuring optimal performance and uptime of the ultra low-latency operating systems, automation software, and development tools that allow our trading strategies to run worldwide 24/7.

As a Trading Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects focusing on our real-time production trading environment and tackle problems that require high availability, high throughput, and ultra low-latency solutions. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for coding and automation, is eager to learn new skills to help build an elegant stack, and has the ability to handle challenging technical issues within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, automate, and optimize worldwide Linux-based trading infrastructure by planning and executing complex technical projects and tasks
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues across the stack 
• Design and implement system installations and upgrades 
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications 
• Remain unfazed by production-critical issues, resolving them quickly and efficiently
• Benchmark and tune the performance of the trading stack 
• Hold vendors accountable on performance and reliability issues, with the ability to confidently go toe-to-toe with a vendor's Tier 2 engineering team during an escalation
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover trading hours and weekend shifts, as needed

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Expert in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux systems, from hardware and networking to kernel to applications 
• Knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is desirable
• Proficiency with configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack – strong knowledge of Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine is also desirable
• Advanced programming experience focusing on automation and integration; Python is strongly preferred
• Advanced shell (bash) scripting experience
• Significant experience managing and debugging production trading services
• Strong cross-functional communication and organization skills
• Proven ability to manage assigned projects efficiently, ideally using JIRA
• Architect-level cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable, but not required

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Junior Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join our global Trade Operations (TradeOps) team in NYC. This team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment, one of the most robust and efficient electronic trading platforms in the world. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s trading as well as handling risk, regulatory, and development tasks. The TradeOps team focuses on both automating common tasks and preparing for the unexpected. Your day could consist of debugging to get a process running in time for the market open, making a difficult on-the-spot decision that balances compliance, risk, and PnL during trading hours, or coordinating the technical rollout of a new trading strategy. 

Being a member of TradeOps at HRT means working on a tight-knit, highly productive team. We're looking for someone who loves technology and wants to work on a broad range of projects using whatever tool(s) best solve the problem at hand. Excellent communication is a must, along with a can-do attitude.

Role

In a high performance environment, immediate awareness of and reaction to systems and trading issues is essential. That’s where HRT’s Electronic Trading Support Engineers come in. You’ll be responsible for managing new initiatives and ensuring a smooth trading day. You’ll act as the first line of defense when the inevitable happens, and the subject matter expert on recent changes to the production trading platform. The team’s scope covers everything from systems infrastructure, to compliance, risk management, overnight clearing, and performance improvement. 

Responsibilities 

• Support live trading during US market hours
• Handle order flow from HRT’s trading desks
• Respond to external market alerts and outages
• Interface with exchanges & other external parties to support trading 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Engineering, Physics, Math, etc.)
• Working knowledge of UNIX systems
• Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy interfacing with clients, both internal and external
• Incredibly organized, with a high attention to detail
• Excited to work independently in a very fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Poses an understanding of Market Data/Order Entry systems and/or an interest in how modern electronic markets work
• Industry experience and/or Series 7 or 57 certification is preferred if applicable, but not required - recent graduates with relevant knowledge can be considered

The estimated base salary range for this position is 100,000 to 150,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to join our dynamic Systems team, which develops and maintains the fast, reliable infrastructure that powers our global trading. Our team is responsible for deploying and managing all servers in HRT’s trading environment, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.

This role will present opportunities to tackle diverse technical challenges that directly impact HRT’s live trading and research operations. Your day-to-day responsibilities may include installing and configuring hardware and software, remote administration, monitoring system performance, testing new hardware and software, and fine-tuning system performance. The ideal candidate is a dedicated and innovative technologist with a passion for learning and a drive to contribute to impactful projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. If you’re excited to work on cutting-edge systems that are critical to HRT’s success, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Write detailed documentation and instructions for server installation and patching
• Operating system installation and upgrading
• Script solutions to automate repetitive tasks
• Help evaluate demo systems from vendors
• Join an on-call rotation schedule to cover nights and weekend shifts, as needed
• Linux OS and application troubleshooting
• Performance testing and tuning
• Work with vendors to resolve issues
• Interface closely with data center techs to complete hardware installations
• Plan and execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc.) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable
• Manage and optimize global trading infrastructure
• Automate and troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure
• Work closely with our Trade Operations team to coordinate server maintenance activities
• Deploy, configure, and test internal and external applications
• Server hardware break/fix and troubleshooting
• Collaborate with our Network and data centre teams to plan deployments across data centres

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience in the following:
• Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems, especially Debian and its derivatives
• Using Linux/UNIX command line tools and configuration management tools
• Python or comparable programming experience focusing on automation and integration
• Shell (bash or comparable) scripting
• Supporting a live production environment (especially trading)
• Configuration management tools, particularly SaltStack but also Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or CFEngine
• Cloud experience in AWS or GCP is desirable but not required
• Strong attention to detail to manage and debug production services
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills – this role will require cross-functional collaboration with various stakeholders across HRT
• Ability to manage projects efficiently

We are looking for engineers to power Hudson River Trading's continued expansion into global markets. As an engineer based out of our Singapore office, you will play a critical role in the process of establishing HRT's presence in Asia-Pacific markets and work closely with our algo and operations teams to ensure the continued success of our trading. You will also be deeply involved in the continuous, ongoing process of optimizing trading in markets HRT already has a presence in.

In this role, you'll be expected to own the process of entering new markets and manage market changes over time. With this responsibility, you'll gain broad exposure to both the technical and business aspects of our trading operation. It is difficult to overstate the impact of this role - you will immediately contribute to the bottom line as HRT begins trading in markets it previously had no presence in and HRT’s trading in existing markets becomes more profitable.

Profile

• In your spare time you: code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer related... you'll find like-minded people here.
• You possess a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• You are capable of working independently as well as part of a team
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• Can look at code, figure out how it works, and how to make it better
• Can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do​

Qualifications

• C++ experience required
• Familiarity with UNIX operating systems and comfort at a command line
• Must be fluent (reading, writing and conversing) in English
• Adept at working independently and in self-management
• Experience developing market data and order entry systems a plus

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Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a leading quantitative trading and investment firm specializing in multi-asset class strategies. At the core of our success lies the power of our compute cluster, the foundation where all our trading strategies are conceived and refined.

We’re looking for innovative minds to enhance the data storage libraries and tools leveraged by our Research teams to generate cutting-edge strategies. As a Storage Developer, you’ll dive deep into C++ and advanced storage solutions, working at massive scale to enable groundbreaking research. Surrounded by a team of exceptional developers constantly pushing the boundaries of their expertise, you’ll be amazed at the impact you can achieve.

Profile

• You’re able to talk both high-level distributed systems design trade-offs and low-level OS-level details
• You’re able to balance being detail-oriented with good prioritization of what matters now vs. later
• You thrive in collaborative environments and have a strong sense of ownership
• In your spare time you code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer related

Responsibilities

• Work with a small team of skilled developers to create distributed storage systems customized to fit HRT’s needs
• Stay informed about the current “state of the art” and help bridge the gap between here and there
• Understand our Research team’s storage and compute needs, and build for the next generation of research

Qualifications 

• Proficient C++ experience is required, daily use preferred 
• Distributed systems experience required (ability to reason about fault tolerance, sharding, trade-offs, and designing for simplicity and robustness under failure) 
• Previous experience developing databases, distributed filesystems, search infrastructure, or similar ideal but not required 
• Ability to work productively in a Linux environment
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems, low-level systems-level performance issues, and networking

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

At Hudson River Trading (HRT), C++ is at the center of our live trading systems and research infrastructure. Our C++ engineers build the highly performant, fault-tolerant systems that power trading across global markets. HRT’s distributed system is on the Pareto frontier of latency and throughput, giving you limitless opportunity to leverage your deep knowledge of C++, OS internals, CPU architecture, and networking hardware and protocols. You’ll work side-by-side with researchers, traders, and hardware specialists, implementing solutions where every microsecond matters.

Our bottom-up approach to projects and our highly collaborative environment empower talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve complex problems in a fast-paced, highly competitive industry, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field.

C++ Engineers at HRT work on a wide variety of projects. Examples include: 

• Develop and optimize infrastructure for market data, order entry and execution logic, spanning tens of asset classes including options, equities, futures, crypto, and fixed income. 
• Design fault-tolerant, low-latency systems for live trading, including encoding/prioritization of data over WAN links and recovery from hardware failures.
• Profile and improve performance-critical code for both throughput and latency in production environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure that drives products including client-facing wholesale and SDP platforms, distributed network filesystems, and scalable research workflows.
• Write software that interfaces with specialized hardware such as FPGAs and ASICs used in trading systems.

Profile

• You’re one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs.
• You are capable of solving complex engineering problems independently and providing technical advice for others in areas of your expertise. 
• You can make progress on long-term architectural projects while troubleshooting smaller tasks and bug fixes with agility.
• You can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), or anywhere in between. 
• You are always looking for ways to make systems better.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional work experience 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Advanced C++ experience is required, daily use preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking curious, thoughtful engineers who enjoy working with data and solving real-world technical problems to join our growing Market Structure Analysis team. In this role as a Quantitative Latency Engineer, you’ll apply data-driven methodologies to understand and optimize trading technology and real-time interactions with financial markets across the globe, spanning traditional and crypto exchanges. No prior finance experience is needed!

Responsibilities 

• Analyze time series network and exchange protocol captures
• Become familiar with the details of specific markets, attend presentations and liaise with exchange counterparts
• Research exchange features, capabilities, and architecture
• Automate collection and visualization of metrics that quantify efficacy of exchange communication
• Formulate and conduct controlled experiments that measure impact of calculated changes to HRT’s trading infrastructure
• Communicate ideas, requirements, and results across disparate teams
• Improve fill rate of our hardware-based trading strategy
• Reduce incidence of cancel-reject responses
• Investigate and report details of various latency-sensitive exchanges

Profile 

• You possess a degree in Data Analytics or a related field
• You can collect and interpret network and/or financial market data
• You have professional experience in latency reduction, preferably in finance
• You have a basic understanding of proprietary trading and exchange technologies

Skills 

• Proficiency in data analytics including statistics, data visualization, and working with large data sets
• Basic understanding of TCP and UDP network protocols
• Extensive experience with Python and relevant data libraries (Pandas, Numpy/Scipy)
• Some familiarity with the details of modern computer systems and networks
• Experience with real time exchange market data and order entry a plus

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Network Engineering team designs and engineers the low-latency communications infrastructure that underpins our incredibly large GPU and CPU compute clusters. Our mandate is to architect, optimize, and scale the high-performance LAN and WAN infrastructure that interconnects globally distributed, large-scale on-prem data centers, enabling them to grow rapidly and operate at peak performance in support of HRT’s demanding computational workloads. 

We are looking for a Network Engineer with deep experience in designing, deploying, and scaling networks for large-scale HPC environments. You will be building the next generation of infrastructure required by a premier algorithmic trading firm operating at the forefront of technology and finance.

This position requires deep technical skills, along with the  product leadership and vision needed for the future of cloud-scale networking. You’ll have broad responsibilities and freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our operations worldwide. We’re looking for someone who loves  technology and is excited about tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the network and contribute to both the management and the technical nitty-gritty of our computing architecture. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most.

Responsibilities

• Network design, product selection, routing, configuration and troubleshooting
• Closely work with our HPC Systems team, as well as other teams to scale our research environment 
• Meet with external parties for project related items as well as future endeavors
• Overall capacity planning for the data center networks
• Develop scripts and processes to increase efficiency
• Collaborate with others in the network team to solve cross discipline problems
• Provide detailed documentation 
• Mentor others as a senior resource 

Profile

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Proven ability to prioritize workloads and manage implementation schedules with a meticulous attention to detail 
• Proactive problem-solver with the technical skills and hands-on mentality to tackle challenges in the field.
• Strong collaboration skills and a focus on continuous improvement, with the humility to own and learn from mistakes 

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms
• Able to create and maintain clear and effective technical documentation
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP, RoCEv2, spine-leaf architecture, and VXLAN) and best practices for them
• Proven ability to select and work with vendors to engineer switches for next-generation computing environments
• Experience managing Arista (EOS), Cisco (NX-OS), Nvidia (Cumulus) and SONiC-based switches, as well as an interest in exploring new platforms
• Strong design skills in computing and grid networks, with expertise in capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Experience with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable to support zero-touch network management
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a data center environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards ranging from 1 to 800 Gbps. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases.
• Skilled in Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Experience with AI style network designs and workloads is preferred

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

FPGAs and ASICs are critical pieces of our technology stack. We are looking for talented hardware developers to architect and design complex systems on a highly collaborative global team. In this role, you'll identify efficient ways to perform on-the-fly transformations of market data and implement models with complex data structures in RTL. Deep knowledge of SystemVerilog, FPGA internals and/or ASIC primitives, computer architecture, and vendor tool suites are essential to succeeding in this role. Expertise in networking protocols, CPU design, and/or machine learning accelerators is a big plus. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and deploy custom FPGA and/or ASIC solutions for a wide range of trading applications
• Investigate new technologies and tools
• Contribute to a nimble hardware development tech stack

Qualifications

• Ability to describe hardware designs at a high level, low level, or anywhere in between
• Brilliant design, optimization, debugging and problem solving skills
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL design for FPGA or ASIC
• Expert SystemVerilog development skills with a thorough understanding of the language 
• Expert on low level FPGA or ASIC architectures, with a deep understanding of what makes them "tick"
• Skilled in network communications, processing pipelines, and/or machine learning
• Working knowledge of Python and/or C++
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Strong verification experience
• Familiarity with AMD Vivado is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

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Hudson River Trading (HRT) is one of the top algorithmic trading companies in the world. Our research cluster is the backbone of our success; it’s where all of our trading strategies are generated.

We use a large, customized research environment with highly advanced CPU and GPU compute, storage, and networking technology. Our team thinks about the entire software stack, from the user-level API to optimizing performance out of low-level caching. We deal with everything from the theoretical, like fair resource scheduling, to the concrete, like optimizing a trader’s new program run-time performance. 

As a distributed compute engineer in a user-facing environment, you’ll develop and improve on technical solutions that make research as easy and efficient as possible. You’ll work everyday with both talented quantitative traders and software engineers across all trading teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure HRT’s research environment is best in class, with a focus on user workloads
• Maintain and improve resource scheduling, data caching, and job monitoring to make research as easy, fast, and efficient as possible, using both in-house and open source solutions
• Optimize workloads at the user level to speed up user iteration speed
• Tune workloads at the infrastructure level to make them more resource-efficient
• Share metrics and real-time information with users to give insight into workload behavior
• Sit down with users to understand their specific technical needs
• Contribute individually and through leadership and coordination of the above
• Set technical direction for the platform and take holistic ownership of the software infrastructure that supports Algo research

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Strong C++ expertise (daily use preferred)
• Python familiarity preferred
• Experience collaborating closely with quantitative researchers and traders to understand their needs
• Great communication capabilities
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for an Electronic Trading Support Engineer to join our global Trade Operations (TradeOps) team in NYC. This team is responsible for managing HRT’s live trading environment, one of the most robust and efficient electronic trading platforms in the world. This includes configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the firm’s trading as well as handling risk, regulatory, and development tasks. The TradeOps team focuses on both automating common tasks and preparing for the unexpected. Your day could consist of debugging to get a process running in time for the market open, making a difficult on-the-spot decision that balances compliance, risk, and PnL during trading hours, or coordinating the technical rollout of a new trading strategy. 

Being a member of TradeOps at HRT means working on a tight-knit, highly productive team. We're looking for someone who loves technology and wants to work on a broad range of projects using whatever tool(s) best solve the problem at hand. Excellent communication is a must, along with a can-do attitude.

Role

In a high performance environment, immediate awareness of and reaction to systems and trading issues is essential. That’s where HRT’s Electronic Trading Support Engineers come in. You’ll be responsible for managing new initiatives and ensuring a smooth trading day. You’ll act as the first line of defense when the inevitable happens, and the subject matter expert on recent changes to the production trading platform. The team’s scope covers everything from systems infrastructure, to compliance, risk management, overnight clearing, and performance improvement. 

Responsibilities 

• Support live trading during US market hours
• Handle order flow from HRT’s trading desks
• Respond to external market alerts and outages
• Interface with exchanges & other external parties to support trading 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (CS, Engineering, Physics, Math, etc.)
• Working knowledge of UNIX systems
• Experience with a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash)
• Excellent communication skills and enjoy interfacing with clients, both internal and external
• Incredibly organized, with a high attention to detail
• Excited to work independently in a very fast-paced, high pressure environment
• Poses an understanding of Market Data/Order Entry systems and an interest in how modern electronic markets work
• Industry experience and/or Series 7 or 57 certification is preferred

The estimated base salary range for this position is 100,000 to 150,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is one of the top algorithmic trading companies in the world. Our research cluster is the backbone of our success; it’s where all of our trading strategies are generated.

We use a large, customized research environment with highly advanced CPU and GPU compute, storage, and networking technology. Our team thinks about the entire software stack, from the user-level API to optimizing performance out of low-level caching. We deal with everything from the theoretical, like fair resource scheduling, to the concrete, like optimizing a trader’s new program run-time performance. 

As a distributed compute engineer in a user-facing environment, you’ll develop and improve on technical solutions that make research as easy and efficient as possible. You’ll work every day with both talented quantitative traders and software engineers across all trading teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure HRT’s research environment is best in class, with a focus on user workloads
• Maintain and improve resource scheduling, data caching, and job monitoring to make research as easy, fast, and efficient as possible, using both in-house and open source solutions
• Optimize workloads at the user level to speed up user iteration speed
• Tune workloads at the infrastructure level to make them more resource-efficient
• Share metrics and real-time information with users to give insight into workload behavior
• Sit down with users to understand their specific technical needs
• Contribute individually and through leadership and coordination of the above
• Set technical direction for the platform and take holistic ownership of the software infrastructure that supports Algo research

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Strong C++ expertise (daily use preferred)
• Python familiarity preferred
• Experience collaborating closely with quantitative researchers and traders to understand their needs
• Great communication capabilities
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

These high performance designs require even higher performance verification. We are looking for experienced Design Verification (DV) engineers who are skilled at writing testbenches and building verification environments to exercise complex HDL. Our ideal candidate is not only an ace tester, but a practicing toolsmith. You know the EDA landscape and want to be part of a team actively working to rethink, redesign, and surpass the status quo. For example, members of our team are active maintainers of popular open source projects such as Slang, Verilator, and Cocotb.

FPGA and ASIC verification is part of an innovative, growing team at HRT which is integral to the success of our trading. You can expect to always be challenged by the ever-changing financial markets as you work to ensure correctness and robustness of our critical hardware in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Creating testbenches and tests for our hardware platform, leveraging a hybrid open-source/proprietary, highly flexible environment
• Writing detailed verification plans
• Quickly root-cause RTL bugs
• Collaborating directly with designers for rapid bringup of new projects and debugging of existing designs
• Managing test suites and continuous integration infrastructure
• Developing and improving open-source and internal tools

Qualifications 

• Superb debug and analytical skills 
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL functional verification for FPGA or ASIC
• Experience with code and functional coverage collection/analysis
• Experience with SystemVerilog and industry-standard frameworks such as UVM
• Experience with Python
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Familiarity with Verilator and/or Cocotb preferred
• C++ experience is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

The estimated base salary range for this position is 175,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

The Networks team designs, builds and maintains all the communications infrastructure that allows our high-capacity, low-latency trading and data research environments to run 24/7.  This network spans over 25 countries and 100 locations. We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer with experience designing and managing large environments to fulfill the high-performance and availability requirements of a premiere algorithmic trading firm operating in global financial markets. 

This position requires both project management and deep technical skills. Working together with some of the brightest minds in our industry, you’ll be responsible for everything from product selection and design to routing configuration and troubleshooting. You will work closely with our Systems and Trading Operations teams as well as others at HRT to build, manage, and monitor our low-latency trading network. You’ll have broad responsibilities with freedom to analyze and solve problems, and your solutions will have an immediate impact on our worldwide operations. 

We’re looking for someone with a love for technology and an excitement for tackling big picture problems. You will work on a wide variety of projects to enhance the performance and capacity of the global trading and research platforms and contribute to both high-level strategy and the technical nitty-gritty of our global network architecture.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related IT field
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in low-latency and high-frequency trading environments.
• In depth understanding of common layer 2 and layer 3 network protocols and best practices; working knowledge of OSPF, BGP, PIM, IGMP
• Experience managing Arista, Cisco, and other common networking devices on a day-to-day basis
• Familiarity with low-latency microwave networks and/or optical transmission systems, such as Adva, Ciena is desirable
• Experience in designing enterprise networks, capacity planning, and full lifecycle project management
• Experience with packet decoding and analysis tools such as tcpdump and Wireshark
• Excellent oral and written communication skills: able to distill complicated issues into clear and concise terms and to create and maintain effective technical documentation
• Experience with Unix/Linux command line utilities and networking stack
• Excellent troubleshooting skills on a wide range of networking issues, including common ethernet LAN problems, multicast market data distribution, and global WAN
• Understanding of basic power consumption and cooling issues in a datacenter environment
• Knowledge of fiber optics technology and cabling standards. Ability to sort through specs and make recommendations on appropriate purchases
• Willingness and ability to solve small technical problems in the field yourself.
• You have excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to admit mistakes.
• Familiarity with firewalls (including Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet), VPNs and NAT
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Salt is desirable
• Familiarity with Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, GitHub is desirable
• Familiarity with public cloud networks, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, is desirable

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

Working as a coder at Hudson River Trading (HRT) means working on a small, highly productive, and efficient team. You may see "trading" in our name and assume you'll be relegated to some dark corner to code for the "business," but that could not be further from the truth! 

At HRT, the code you write *is* our business, so it is everyone's job to make sure our developers have everything they need to do their jobs well.

HRT’s two main programming languages are C++ and Python. We use C++ for anything latency-sensitive that sits on the critical trading path, and we use Python for everything else. With Python, we monitor live trading, build our distributed computing platform, process large amounts of data, and write all of our internal tools.

As a Python Engineer at HRT, you’ll have an incredible opportunity to work in cutting-edge distributed compute environments at one of the top algorithmic trading companies in the world. You’ll collaborate with researchers and engineers to build high-impact products, help HRT tackle exciting new initiatives, and streamline every part of the trade cycle. 

Responsibilities

• Help us develop software that reaches every office and department at HRT while using the latest technologies and techniques in Python and software engineering to drive improvements to our systems, new and old
• HRT has many high-impact areas where we use Python; here’s what you could work on as a Python Engineer here:
• Improving job orchestration and scheduling in our huge compute cluster
• Building Python tooling and environments for all developers at HRT
• Deploying, automating, and monitoring systems for global trade management and post-trade analysis
• Building systems for hardware verification and tooling
• Writing software that supports data ETL pipelines covering all types of inputs, from market data to image and text processing

Profile

• You’re one of the top devs in your current organization, as measured by productivity, technical capability, and helpfulness to other devs
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications. You’ve managed an application from the design phase through the production phase
• Ability to look at code, figure out how it works, and identify how to make it better
• You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do
• In your spare time you code, tinker, read, explore, break things, and have an insatiable curiosity for all things computer-related — you'll find like-minded people here

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Deep Python experience is required, daily use of most recent standards preferred
• Advanced  knowledge of the Python ecosystem, including best practices
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication