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Systems Engineer - R&D
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for Systems Engineers to join our growing Research & Development team. This team builds and maintains exceptionally large and growing distributed compute clusters, multi petabyte-scale storage layers, operating systems, automation software, and development tools. We have incredibly large GPU and CPU compute clusters, larger than most national labs. We are building or have built our own on-prem data centers globally and have teams focused on industry leading compute, network, storage and power optimization. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most.
As a full-time Systems Engineer, you’ll work on projects that impact our live trading and research and allow them to run worldwide 24/7. A typical day could include scaling and keeping our HPC environment running smoothly or designing and building services to improve HRT’s research environment, but responsibilities are broad! Your day could also consist of hardware and software installation and configuration, remote administration, monitoring, new hardware and software testing, automation and tool development, and performance tuning.
Responsibilities
- Plan/execute technical projects to make our Linux trading systems (hardware, network, OS, etc) faster, adaptable, and more maintainable
- Manage and optimize large scale distributed compute/HPC clusters
- Automate/troubleshoot a broad range of technical infrastructure
- Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
- Operating system installation and upgrading
- Performance testing and tuning
- Scripting to automate repetitive tasks
- Working with vendors to resolve issues
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Expertise in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Linux systems
- Comfortable using Linux/UNIX command line tools
- Experience with configuration management tools
- Python and Shell scripting experience
- Attention to detail needed to manage and debug production services
- Strong communication and organization
- You enjoy tinkering with technology in your spare time
- Exceptional communication skills - this role will require cross-collaboration with various stakeholders across HRT
- You are resourceful, have a sense of urgency, and are motivated to make things better and to always be learning
- Ability to context switch to work on several projects at once
- Experience and knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu is a plus
- GPU Optimization experience is a plus
The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 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.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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Junior Trading Systems Engineer
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.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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GPU Systems Engineer
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for GPU Systems Engineers to help scale and evolve our exceptionally sophisticated HPC/AI research environment.
Joining our Research and Development team, you will collaborate with experts responsible for the compute, storage, operating systems, and automation tools that enable our trading and research to run 24/7 across the globe. We design, grow, and operate infrastructure at a large scale, including triple-digit petabyte-scale storage and massive CPU and GPU clusters in globally distributed data centers. As such, this is a high-impact role with broad scope, from HPC/AI cluster design and performance tuning, to troubleshooting and automation for thousands of nodes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize large-scale distributed GPU compute clusters
- Identify and resolve GPU workloads’ performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking layers
- Collaborate with research and development teams to profile, benchmark, and fine-tune GPU-based workloads
- Automate system deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting across thousands of nodes
- Collaborate with research, and engineering teams to support evolving workloads
- Own critical infrastructure projects — from concept to implementation and support
- Test and deploy new hardware and software, and partner with vendors to resolve complex issues
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in large-scale Linux systems engineering in HPC, AI or distributed infrastructure roles.
- Extensive experience in Linux system installation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Expertise in troubleshooting distributed GPU workloads
- Deep knowledge around GPU optimization and performance
- Proficiency in Python scripting and automation frameworks
- CUDA or C/C++ experience is a plus
- Experience with NVIDIA technologies beyond CUDA, such as NCCL, GPUDirect RDMA, and NVLink
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g. Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Comfortable diagnosing complex system issues at the hardware, OS, and network levels
- Strong communication and organizational skills; able to collaborate across diverse technical teams
- Thrive in fast-paced environments and excited by high-impact work
The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 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.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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Trading Systems Engineer
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.
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Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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High Performance Compute (HPC) Storage Engineer
The Research and Development (R&D) team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) builds and maintains the computers, networks, data storage, operating systems, and software that allow our trading strategies and research environment to operate worldwide 24/7. The Storage team within R&D manages hundreds of petabytes of storage to facilitate industry-leading AI/ML-based trading.
We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer who enjoys being challenged, appreciates an open and collaborative organizational structure, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will manage our existing storage infrastructure and be responsible for the design, automation, and management of future storage solutions to support our large-scale research environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team focused on HPC storage and help set the direction for storage solutions at HRT. You’ll have freedom to research, propose, and test new hardware and software to improve the performance and usability of our research environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy and manage a variety of storage solutions
- Troubleshoot complex storage, OS, and networking issues
- Build tools to improve the performance and monitoring of storage clusters
- Research and experiment with new storage solutions
Qualifications
- Knowledge of distributed file systems used for large-scale cluster computing (Lustre, CephFS, GPFS, etc.)
- Ability to design a home grown NAS storage solution with redundancy and high availability
- 3+ years of experience in HPC-like environments with large scale storage deployments greater than 1PB
- 3+ years of experience with scale-out enterprise storage solutions such as Isilon, VAST, NetApp, and Pure
- Extensive experience with Linux troubleshooting and NFS
- Strong knowledge of Linux, ZFS, and other Linux filesystems
- Proficient in Python and shell scripting
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
- Ability to analyze and solve problems quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional time management skills and the ability to balance independent and collaborative workflows
- Eager to learn and apply new skills
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.
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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Trading Systems Engineer
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
Culture
Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.
At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We’re a community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation in every part of our organization—from trading, to business operations, to recruiting and beyond. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Feel like you belong at HRT? Our goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. HRT is proud of our diverse staff; we have offices all over the globe and benefit from our varied and unique perspectives. HRT is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are we’d love to get to know you.
Please be advised: Use of AI tools during interviews or assessments is strictly prohibited, unless otherwise instructed or agreed upon. We employ various methods to evaluate the authenticity of candidate responses. If we determine that AI assistance was used during any stage of the hiring process, we reserve the right to immediately disqualify your candidacy or rescind any job offers extended.
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