Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Data Production Engineer to join our Data team. Data is at the core of everything we do at HRT; we excel at deriving deep insights from all types of data, allowing us to achieve consistent success in a dynamic market. 

This role is an opportunity to work directly with live trading teams to support one of the largest automated trading systems in the world. You will write automation, explore data, work closely with our research and trading teams, and interact with a variety of external partners such as data providers, brokers, and exchanges. In addition to being a critical part of the trading process, you will have the opportunity to acquire, analyze, and prepare data for quantitative research. 

Responsibilities

• Data Engineering: Write tools to classify, onboard, and reconcile data. Onboard datasets, explore data, and automate tasks using a modern Python data stack
• Data Analysis: Parse, analyze, and understand data sets. Perform data reconciliations, validations, and quality checks. Identify and develop new processes within the data request process to enrich data. Assist our researchers in cleaning and featurizing data
• Data Debugging: Find anomalies in derived datasets and trace the issues back to their source. This can include using a mix of deductive reasoning, technical analysis, and communicating with multiple stakeholders in a data pipeline
• Production Support: Provide proactive oversight of our data pipeline, handle inquiries from internal customers, and resolve issues under efficient turnaround times

Profile

• Track record of being detail-oriented and thorough
• You excel in problem solving and researching large datasets to resolve complex issues
• You have a collaborative attitude that lends itself to cross-team customers and projects 
• You thrive in the fast-paced environment of a daily live trading operation 

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a data engineering/science role OR a degree in data science or a similar discipline 
• Experience in Python strongly preferred 
• Experience managing ETL pipelines is a plus
• Experience with financial datasets (e.g. Refinitiv, S&P, Bloomberg) is a big plus
• Comfortable with the Linux command line
• Experienced in at least one SQL dialect (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MYSQL) and able to use others as needed
• Able to provide technical support in a production trading environment

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Middle Office Analyst to join our team in New York. The Middle Office team is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of HRT’s post-trade platform, which supports the firm’s trading across many asset classes and geographies. Our team designs and operates the systems and processes that reconcile HRT’s trading with our various brokers and counterparties, and collaborates with multiple teams to research corporate actions, maintain commissions programs, and track all costs incurred by HRT’s trading.

Being a member of the Middle Office team means working within a tight-knit, highly productive unit. We're looking for someone who loves technology and wants to work on a variety of operational projects using whatever tools best solve the problem at hand. Due to the high volume of trades and complexity of our systems, we rely heavily on automation and seek candidates with exceptional attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and a can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with external counterparties to monitor and resolve daily position, trade and cash discrepancies, supporting effective book management
• Work closely with multiple internal stakeholders to identify and implement improvements to our current workflow
• Document complex processes to develop middle office guidelines
• Onboard new trading into existing technology and platforms
• Reconcile daily position, cash, and PnL breaks in coordination with both internal and external parties
• Research & process applicable corporate actions
• Maintain and update the commission structures across all markets

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant financial markets industry experience
• Knowledge of Futures, FX, or Fixed Income products is a plus
• Understanding of corporate actions and exposure to the complex commission schedule of various markets
• Working knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux)
• Intermediate knowledge of Python and SQL/relational databases; knowledge of additional programming languages like C++ is a plus
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills 
• Ability to take ownership of your work, and admit and learn from mistakes
• Ability to debug, analyze, and troubleshoot problems quickly under pressure
• Desire to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do
• Comfort working independently in a fast-paced, high pressure environment

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.

Fullstack Developers at HRT work either on our platform team (i.e. you work on infrastructure & tooling that supports all of our research & trading capabilities) or our acceleration team (i.e. you are aligned with a specific algo research & trading team). All of our Fullstack Developers have internal customers and deeply understand end-user needs. They build backend processes to ingest and transform vast quantities of data, and UIs to visualize and action that data quickly. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work on our in-house distributed-compute framework designed for execution on a large scale within HRT’s compute cluster. This framework serves various teams, with our algo teams being the primary users, particularly for training complex models.
• Work closely with our Algo Developers and traders, building backend processes and UIs for them to oversee trading processes, execute manual trades, assess risk, and research improvements to our strategies.
• Work closely with a variety of senior technical and non-technical users and own projects end-to-end, from inception to gathering and refining requirements, forming and executing a structured plan, and managing ongoing support and iterations to the initial plan.  
• Architect web-based tooling to provide insights and enable real-time actions using financial data, operational data, trading activity, and more using React and Python.

The interview process will evaluate your backend programming skills (primarily Python), and your experience working in JavaScript/TypeScript on a modern web framework (React skills are required!). It is important that you are excited about and comfortable with working on both sides of the stack. All fullstack candidates will go through the same assessment & two technical phone interviews. We will start team alignment discussions if (when!) you get to onsite. To learn more about interviewing for technical and engineering roles at HRT, see this blog! 

Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience working with Python and React
• Experience working with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent multitasking and time management skills
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across teams
• Ability to look at a technical system, understand how it works, and identify how to make it better
• Ability to explain complicated topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Driven by curiosity
• Thrives within a team that consistently challenges you to improve the ecosystem around you

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 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.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Risk Engineer to join our Risk team in New York City. In this role, you will focus on building out our risk function and managing all aspects of risk faced by HRT. You will gain exposure to the exciting, fast-paced world of electronic trading while collaborating with exceptionally talented people across all aspects of the business. 

This will be a challenging role with a wide mandate spanning the full remit of HRT’s global trading. The ideal candidate is highly motivated to learn new concepts quickly, possesses a solid understanding of the importance of risk management within a trading environment, and is equally comfortable working alone or collaborating as part of a wider team.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance in-house factor risk models for various asset classes, including interest rates, commodities, credit, and equities
• Customize vendor market risk models
• Research and build new models to address trading and risk management challenges
• Work with risk managers to enhance tail risk estimation for historical and hypothetical scenarios
• Ingest, evaluate, and transform large data sets relevant to risk and performance analysis
• Design and implement state-of-the-art performance analytics and risk decomposition applications 
• Work with developers to productionize risk models and risk management tools
• Enhance and maintain the risk production codebase
• Communicate with investment teams

Qualifications

• B.S. in Mathematics, Physics, CS, or Statistics; advanced degree a plus
• 2 - 5 years of experience as a quantitative analyst at a hedge fund, institutional asset manager, or investment bank; experience with fixed income, commodities, credit, or options is preferred
• Excellent knowledge of linear algebra, applied probability, and statistics
• Excellent knowledge of Python and Linux
• Cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of an organization

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 an IT Operations Engineer to join our Information Technology team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for providing technical support to HRTers around the globe, while also driving automation and engineering solutions to improve scalability and efficiency. You’ll work closely with IT leadership to deliver projects, meet service-level objectives, and continuously improve internal processes.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and demonstrates strong communication and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate brings a positive attitude and a customer service mindset to deliver outstanding support to internal users. This role is expected to be onsite up to 80% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automations with code to streamline recurring IT support tasks, reduce manual toil, and improve team scalability
• Deliver responsive and in-depth technical support for end users, serving as a high-level escalation point for advanced Windows endpoint issues
• Administer and support core IT platforms and SaaS tools including Okta, Google Workspace, Jira, Microsoft 365, Slack, Zoom, and others
• Partner with Technical Procurement to ensure accurate tracking, lifecycle management, and compliance of IT assets
• Co-own the onboarding process for user accounts and hardware in your region, ensuring a seamless experience for new hires
• Maintain and improve internal documentation to serve as a resource for the IT team and broader organization
• Participate in an on-call rotation for IT support coverage, which may include occasional weekend shifts

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT support experience in fast-paced, tech driven environments
• Proficiency across macOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems, with strong technical intuition for diagnosing Windows performance issues, driver conflicts, and application errors
• Hands-on experience administering core SaaS platforms such as Okta, Google Workspace, Jira, Slack, and Zoom
• Familiarity with code version control systems like Git, and an understanding of developer workflows including CI/CD tooling
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to identify root causes, detect patterns, and work independently
• Customer-focused mindset with a proactive, positive attitude and strong communication skills
• Ability to lift and move equipment up to 25 lbs

Annual base salary range of $100,000 to $150,000. Pay (base and bonus) may vary depending on job-related skills and experience. A sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package, in addition to company-paid medical and/or other benefits.

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 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 (HRT) is seeking a Windows Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Engineering team. In this role, you will help scale HRT’s global hybrid Windows deployment and develop automation, configuration-as-code, and infrastructure-as-code solutions to seamlessly manage fleets of top-of-the-line user endpoints, mission critical servers, cloud infrastructure, and secure remote computing environments around the world. You will apply configuration-as-code practices to reduce operational overhead, build PowerShell-based systems that improve platform stability and resilience, and enhance the reliability of our Windows platform by designing and implementing automation that identifies and resolves technical inefficiencies across on-premises and Azure infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a Microsoft-based technology engineer and eager problem solver who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Terrific communication and collaboration skills, as well as a positive attitude towards team members and internal customers, are crucial to success within this role. 

Responsibilities

• Leverage configuration-as-code paradigms to reduce the operational overhead of managing Windows infrastructure
• Use infrastructure-as-code to consistently configure Microsoft Azure resources
• Develop PowerShell-based systems to automate operational tasks and enhance the reliability of the Windows platform
• Leverage automation to identify and remediate technical inefficiencies across Windows endpoints, Windows infrastructure, and Microsoft Azure resources
• Participate in ongoing engineering, maintenance, and support efforts to improve the Windows environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Microsoft-based technology engineer
• Experience using Ansible (or similar configuration-as-code tool) to manage a fleet of Windows devices
• Proven ability to provision Microsoft Azure resources with Terraform
• Proficiency with Microsoft Graph API development
• Experience developing scripts and tools using PowerShell
• Familiarity with Microsoft Intune, Autopilot, Entra ID, and Active Directory
• A general design approach that incorporates security best practices, business continuity, high availability, and scalability
• A self-motivated and driven work ethic

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.

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, an automated trading firm based in NYC, 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.

As a member of the AI Tools team, you will be responsible for increasing productivity across the company by integrating the newest AI tools into our users’ workflows. Whether it’s for a Python developer writing a web app, a C++ developer speeding up order execution, a researcher investigating trade signals, or even Business Development meeting with vendors - we are focused on deploying what works.

This is an exciting opportunity to help build and define the AI tooling ecosystem at HRT. You will have to navigate the rapidly evolving options in this space, and adapt them to our own internal systems. You might be fixing auth one day, comparing vendors the next, and coding a new MCP the third. 

Responsibilities

• Help us develop software that improves productivity for every office and department at HRT while using the latest technologies and techniques in software engineering and the broader AI tooling ecosystem.
• HRT has many high-impact areas where we are integrating AI tools; here’s what you could work on:
• Writing a custom MCP wrapper around internal resources.
• Fine-tuning a new code completion model.
• Deploying a new coding assistant across all developer and researcher environments.
• Developing evaluations and iterating on an autonomous coding agent.
• Collaborating with security to improve AI sandboxing.
• Presenting and educating users on best practices.

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.
• You’re comfortable with defining direction in an environment of ambiguity and uncertainty. The AI tooling space changes rapidly.
• 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 AI and computer-related.

Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. If you are currently pursuing your Bachelor's degree, please apply to our Campus/New Grad opportunities.
• Python experience is required, daily use of most recent standards preferred.
• C++ and JavaScript (TypeScript, React) experience a plus.
• Experience with the AI tooling ecosystem (use coding assistants/agentic workflows, ideally have built your own customizations).
• 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.

​​Algo Developers are responsible for building and maintaining the models that drive our trading. A typical day involves applying rigorous statistical analysis to vast quantities of market and financial data to produce predictive trading models. You will run models live on our high-performance trading infrastructure, and analyze their daily performance to maintain ongoing profitability. Working in close collaboration with fellow algo developers and core developers, you will research, develop, and test novel order execution and model training methods to increase trading efficiency.

Skills

• Brilliant analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work creatively and independently on long-term technical problems
• Familiarity with the C++ programming language

Profile

• You possess a bachelor's degree in Math, CS, Stats, Physics, or related field
• You are capable of working independently as well as part of a team
• You can analyze and fix problems quickly
• You learn quickly and apply new skills effectively

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 a quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technological innovation. We build and deploy cutting-edge systems within one of the world’s most advanced computing environments to power our global trading operations. Our non-siloed, collaborative coding environment empowers talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve the most complex problems in trading alongside many of the brightest minds in the field.

We are seeking highly motivated and skilled Research Engineers who will work very closely with our Algo Developer (Quant Research) trading teams. These roles require exceptional programming fundamentals, a strong user focus, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with constantly evolving requirements. Multitasking and context switching are inherent aspects of this role, through which you will gain insight into the ideation and execution of some of the world's most sophisticated trading strategies.  

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

• Designing highly customized quantitative systems that enable Algo Developers to easily express and backtest new predictive signals.
• Building world-class research tooling to speed up Algo Developers’ research iteration.
• Aiding the development and deployment of very large deep learning models for HRT’s live trading.
• Improving HRT’s monetization systems which turn our predictions into profitable trades.
• Evaluating sim vs. live differences to improve the fidelity of our simulations.
• Building systems to monitor and manage live trading.
• Specializing in specific time horizons, from high frequency trading to mid-to-low frequency hedge fund-style strategies.
• Working across a very wide variety of asset classes (from equities to fixed income to options) and regions (from North America to Asia Pacific) – you’ll interact with markets across the world!

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, performant, and scalable software systems.
• Optimize existing codebases for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Debug complex issues across distributed systems in a time-sensitive environment.
• Optimize both the mechanics and ergonomics of Algo Developer research workflows; this requires developing a deep intuition for research methodologies.
• Balance the short term goals of individual trading teams with the longer term goals of HRT’s generalized trading platforms across trading teams. Because we don’t work in a pod environment, REs on different trading teams are expected to share technology and ideas.

Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. If you are currently pursuing your Bachelor's degree, please apply to our Campus/New Grad opportunities.
• Previous experience at a top-tier finance or technology company with an excellent track record of rapid advancement and superlative reviews.
• Experience with supporting internal users is preferred; bonus if you have real hands-on experience with quant research and/or ML/Deep Learning platforms.
• Experience with python numerical, ML and data-oriented libraries is a big plus (e.g. pandas, scikit, pytorch, etc.)
• Candidates should be prepared for technical interviews in either Python or C++. While there is no hard language requirement for RE roles, proficiency in one of these languages will be assessed during the interview process.
• Kindness and empathy is a real requirement. No “smart jerks” at HRT. 
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design principles.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• HRT ships every day. The ability to thoughtfully, methodically, and reliably deploy new software and features is a critical skill. 
• If you have management experience, that’s always a bonus – but even so, expect to code!

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.

For more info about interviewing at HRT, see this blog!

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an experienced FICC Clearing Associate to join our Securities Financing & Clearing team in New York City. This role will support the clearance and settlement of fixed income products, with a primary focus on U.S. Treasuries cleared via the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC). In this role, you will ensure timely and accurate trade processing, resolve exceptions, and help enhance our clearing infrastructure as our business expands. 

The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in fixed income, trading systems, and technology, and will be an enthusiastic contributor eager to learn and make an immediate, tangible impact on our fixed income business.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end trade clearance and settlement of U.S. Treasury transactions cleared through the FICC
• Monitor trade flows and ensure accurate trade capture, reporting, allocation, and matching
• Identify, investigate, and resolve breaks, fails, and settlement discrepancies in a timely manner
• Liaise with counterparties, custodians, and the FICC to ensure smooth trade settlement
• Partner with internal teams (e.g., trading desk, middle office/operations, compliance, and risk) to optimize clearing workflows
• Support regulatory and industry reporting requirements related to fixed income clearance and settlement
• Manage intraday and end of day funding of custodial account and oversee intraday credit usage
• Contribute to the development of policies, procedures, and controls to strengthen operational risk management
• Provide subject matter expertise on FICC rules, margining, and settlement processes

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in fixed income operations, preferably in U.S. Treasuries clearance and settlement
• Strong understanding of U.S. Treasury market, FICC processes, margin, and settlement cycles
• Experience working with clearing systems, trade matching platforms, and custodians
• Proven ability to manage trade exceptions and settlement breaks
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Meticulously detail-oriented, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Equity and/or F&O clearing experience is a plus
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements impacting fixed income clearing (e.g., SEC, FINRA, DTCC rules) is a plus

The estimated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 per year, based on job-related skills and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

As a Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading (HRT), the code you write is our business. Our engineers create and maintain critical technology and infrastructure that is integral to the success of our trading. In this role, you will work closely with other engineers across the firm who design trading algorithms and monitor trading in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment! We are looking for smart programmers who love to code, enjoy being challenged, and can thrive in an open and collaborative company culture.

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 are capable of working both independently, as well as part of a team and can analyze and fix problems quickly
• You can look at code, figure out how it works, and identify how to make it better
• You can describe software designs at a high level (the abstract interface), low level (step-by-step algorithm), and anywhere in between
• You really like to work with people who push you to be better at what you do

Qualifications

You are a full-time undergraduate or masters student studying computer science or a related field who is eligible for full-time roles in 2026.

• Excellent design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Working experience with C/C++ or Python is required, as are good CS fundamentals 
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems (we use Linux), system/processor performance, and network communication
• Interest in low-level architecture, logic design, and/or verification is a plus

The estimated base salary for this position is 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.

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.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a People Partner (HRBP) to join our People Operations team in NYC. 

In this role, you’ll support a highly technical employee population, partnering with engineering leaders to understand their challenges and design and execute talent solutions to drive organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.You will operate as both a strategic advisor and a hands-on problem-solver, building strong relationships with leaders to advise and support them through organizational growth, team design, change management, and leadership development.

The ideal candidate brings strong business acumen and EQ, experience supporting engineering teams, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities

• Coach managers and employees through performance challenges, conflict resolution, and career development 
• Partner with technical leads to evaluate team health, identify friction points, and optimize structures to drive team effectiveness and long-term engagement
• Lead and manage workforce planning for the teams you support, helping leaders anticipate talent gaps, succession needs, and growth opportunities
• Elevate the quality of feedback within the technical org, guiding managers through performance evaluations and fostering a culture of continuous development
• Design tailored talent solutions for software engineers, including professional development, mentorship models, and high-potential development
• Partner with members of the People Operations team to execute on people initiatives and collaborate on building and improving processes
• Coordinate offsites, leadership retreats, and team-building workshops that bridge the gap between strategic goal-setting and meaningful team connection
• Maintain a pulse on organizational morale and office dynamics to proactively address engagement trends and foster an inclusive, high-energy environment

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, with a proven track record supporting engineering or highly technical teams
• Deep understanding of the software engineering lifecycle and the dynamics of high-performance, intellectually rigorous environments
• Proven ability to coach highly analytical leaders through complex interpersonal and organizational challenges
• Strong business acumen, including the ability to “look around corners” and anticipate talent implications of technical strategy
• Direct experience in organizational design, workforce planning, and succession strategies
• Strong analytical skills and a high degree of comfort using data to inform decision-making
• Exceptional judgment and professional maturity, with the ability to act as a trusted, neutral advisor across all levels of the organization
• A natural bias toward simplicity and high-impact solutions over bureaucracy
• A hands-on, collaborative approach that prioritizes crafting specific tools and processes that fit our unique needs over generic HR programs
• Foundational knowledge of Organizational Development (a related degree or equivalent is preferred, but not required)

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 - 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 Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage HRT’s server and network infrastructure. As a Systems Software Engineer with a focus on Security, your main focus will be tool development in Python and Go to engineer creative solutions to security challenges. You’ll improve and integrate our existing tools and libraries across the platform, as well as design and build new ones to make trading, research, installation, and monitoring systems easier to manage, more secure, and more reliable. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience and interest in the security space.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure. Your responsibilities will vary, but a typical day in the life might look like:

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to secure machine provisioning, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, secrets management, and network configuration
• Troubleshooting software bugs on a fleet of Linux machines, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues
• Writing configuration management code to build, deploy, and maintain new services
• Helping to set the general direction for the Systems Python platform
• Working across HRT’s engineering teams to help create solutions to a variety of security challenges

Qualifications

Required:

• Strong Python programming
• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly
• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems 
• Interest in and awareness of security best practices

Preferred:

• Understanding of Debian operating system
• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies 
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
• Understanding of networking protocols

Profile

• BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field
• 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python
• Experience using automation to solve problems and improve process efficiency
• Acts effectively as a team player, but also works well independently 
• Skilled at juggling multiple tasks while maintaining meticulous attention to detail
• Familiarity with open-source software

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an ETF Trade Support Analyst to join our Business Development team in New York City. This role will support HRT’s Americas ETF business by assisting the sales trading desk with manual execution and ongoing client engagement. As a core member of the team, you will manage daily settlements for clients and broker dealers, ensuring seamless support from the moment trades are executed through clearing and post-trade. 

This role offers broad exposure to trading across multiple asset classes and requires close, cross-functional collaboration with many teams at HRT. We are looking for an enthusiastic learner with a passion for technology and trading and a desire to make an immediate, tangible impact. The ideal candidate will thrive in a client-facing environment and leverage a strong background in ETFs to help drive the ongoing development of HRT’s trading platform.

Responsibilities

• Handle daily settlement needs for clients and broker/dealer relationships
• Oversee manual booking processes
• Work closely with internal HRT teams across clearing, post-trade, accounting, and business development
• Support sales trading desk with manual execution needs and ongoing client engagement
• Build tools and generate reports to improve operational efficiency, utilizing automation where applicable

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an operations or middle office settlements role; client-facing experience is a plus
• Proficient with Python, Unix, and Microsoft Excel
• Deep knowledge of various settlement processes and financial markets, with specialized expertise in ETFs
• FINRA Series 7, 57, 63, or willingness to obtain through HRT
• Excellent cross-functional written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal abilities
• Strong work ethic and a desire to see complex projects through from concept to completion
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Keen interest in technology and trading is mandatory

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 - 200,000 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 a quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technological innovation. We build and deploy cutting-edge systems within one of the world’s most advanced computing environments to power our global trading operations.

HRT is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to join our growing Security Operations team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to design, build, and support strategic solutions that protect and maintain HRT’s global cyber security systems.

We are looking for someone with exceptional engineering and cross-functional communication skills. The ideal candidate is proficient in a programming language (Python preferred), has deployed and maintained automated systems, and has experience with security data engineering. This role also requires robust technical troubleshooting skills and exceptional organizational and project management skills. 

Responsibilities

• Help maintain and enhance HRT’s security detection and response program to protect our data and intellectual property from both internal misuse and external threats
• Build and maintain end-to-end pipelines to ingest, parse, map, enrich, visualize, and analyze raw logs from disparate sources
• Design, build, and maintain innovative solutions to supercharge incident response
• Respond to malicious activity and anomalous events on HRT’s devices and networks
• Maintain and enhance HRT's data loss prevention systems to better detect advanced insider threats 
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships with HRT’s global teams and external vendors

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a security engineering role
• Extensive programming experience, preferably in Python
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining automated systems
• Strong security fundamentals (SOC experience is a plus)
• Experience with security data engineering (ELK stack is a plus)
• Experience working with and securing Linux systems (Debian is a huge plus!)
• Willingness to work an on-call rotation during business hours and one weekend per month

The estimated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year, based on job-related 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 Software Engineer focused on GPU reliability to join our Systems Development team. The Systems Development team builds and maintains the platform that is shared by all Systems teams to provision, monitor, and manage HRT’s server and network infrastructure. In this role, your main focus will be to develop tools in Python to analyze the performance of GPU hardware and build creative solutions to improve observability, reliability, and efficiency of the fleet. You’ll work closely with other engineering teams to deeply understand research and trading workflows and ensure that GPU infrastructure is utilized optimally. Strong Python skills and development experience are required, along with Unix experience and a background of managing GPU hardware at scale.

Responsibilities

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a critical part of our existing and growing infrastructure. Your responsibilities may vary day to day, but will include:

• Building and maintaining tools and software features to automate systems engineering workflows related to GPU management, monitoring, metrics collection, maintenance, and network configuration
• Troubleshooting software and hardware bugs on a fleet of GPU devices, including application, network, operating system, and/or kernel issues
• Working across HRT’s engineering teams to tune workloads and processes to use GPUs more efficiently 
• Analyzing GPU job statistics to identify trends and areas for improvement

Qualifications

Required:

• BS and/or MS in computer science or a related field
• 2+ years of relevant experience, including programming in Python and managing GPUs
• Experience using automation to solve problems and improve process efficiency
• Experience working with, troubleshooting, tuning, and deploying various types of GPU hardware
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals and software design patterns
• Solid understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems 
• Familiarity with open-source software
• Ability to debug and analyze problems quickly
• Skilled at balancing multiple tasks while maintaining meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to operate effectively as a team player and also work independently 
• Ability to learn at a fast pace and apply new skills effectively

Preferred:

• Understanding of Debian operating system
• Familiarity with systems configuration management and monitoring technologies 
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools and processes
• Understanding of networking protocols

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.

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 seeking exceptional full-time PhD students to join our Algorithm Development team. Algorithm Developers are responsible for building and maintaining the models that drive our trading. A typical day involves applying rigorous statistical analysis to vast quantities of market and financial data to produce predictive trading models. 

In this role, you will work alongside fellow Algorithm Developers and Software Engineers to research, develop, and test novel order execution and model training methods to increase trading efficiency. This will involve running models live on our high-performance trading infrastructure and analyzing daily performance to maintain ongoing profitability. You can expect to apply your advanced academic research experience and expertise to impactful real world problems in trading across time horizons and machine learning strategies.

Profile

• You’re excited to apply your research expertise to identify new opportunities in worldwide markets  
• You enjoy both self-guided research and collaborating with others to analyze and fix problems efficiently
• You are a critical thinker who can learn and implement new skills in a fast-changing environment

Qualifications

• You are a full-time PhD student in a quantitative discipline (math, physics, computer science, statistics, or a related program) who is eligible for full-time roles in 2026
• Fluency in Python
• Experience with statistical analysis, numerical programming, or machine learning in Python, Pandas/Numpy, R, and/or MATLAB
• Brilliant analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work creatively and independently on long-term technical problems

The estimated base salary for this position is 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 looking for a Recruiting Coordinator to join our global Recruiting team. In this role, you will be a scheduling and logistics guru responsible for providing a first-class interview experience for both candidates and internal stakeholders. You will join a small team dedicated to overseeing all operational aspects of hiring awesome people, and you will partner closely with recruiters to manage candidate flow across numerous teams.

The ideal candidate for this role is accustomed to working (and thriving) in an extremely fast-paced environment and is excited by the prospect of building and improving workflows and structure on the team. You color code your closets, plan every minute of your vacations ahead of time - you live for process and can’t imagine life without it!

Responsibilities

• Schedule a high volume of interviews through our scheduling platform (GoodTime) and manual coordination as needed
• Work with leaders, managers, recruiters, and interviewers to engage and communicate directly with high-touch candidates 
• Greet candidates at their onsite interviews (in-person and virtual) to answer questions and ensure they’re appropriately set up for the day
• Provide real-time support for onsite interviews by managing the interviewer flow and troubleshooting issues as they arise 
• Keep hiring teams and candidates up-to-date on recruiting process
• Gather requirements for new jobs and open requisitions in our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse)
• Support ad hoc projects throughout our recruiting programs by finding solutions, pushing projects forward, updating stakeholders on progress, and collaborating with other team members
• Identify, execute, and implement improvements to our recruiting processes
• Assist with setting up and attending various recruiting conferences and career fairs
• Maintain and develop relationships with all candidates (as hiring needs and interest levels can change quickly), regardless of outcome
• Manage confidential and sensitive information with a high level of discretion

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1 to 3 years of work experience, preferably in recruiting or HR-related fields
• In-person attendance at least 3 days/week, and flexibility to come in more often as needed to manage in-person recruiting activities (e.g. interviews, candidate visits)
• Experience improving and implementing process changes
• Experience with GoodTime, Greenhouse, and Google suite preferred
• Display professionalism in dealing with candidates and internal team members
• Articulate communicator with outstanding writing skills
• Ambitious with a strong desire to make an impact
• Ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships
• Approaches problems tactfully with directness and integrity
• Exerts a positive influence and enjoys working with team members
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities while maintaining a sense of urgency

The estimated base salary range for this position is 80,000 to 100,000 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.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to focus on our Treasury Infrastructure. Coders at HRT work on small, highly productive, and efficient teams that design, improve, and maintain the technology that powers worldwide trading — at HRT, the code you write is our business. You’ll have an opportunity to work closely with Treasury Quantitative Researchers and our Funding Team to design and develop HRT's Treasury Optimization and Research Platform.

We are looking for highly skilled programmers who love to code and solve complex problems, appreciate a culture of collaboration, and thrive in a performance-driven environment. You can always expect to be challenged by the ever-changing financial markets, and find yourself working on critical software in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the engineering design and development of HRT’s Treasury Optimization Platform.
• Collaborate with Treasury Researchers on HRT’s Treasury Research Infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Quantitative Developers as well as our Funding and Finance teams on managing cash and collateral requirements.

Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. If you are currently pursuing your Bachelor's degree, please apply to our Campus/New Grad opportunities.
• Working experience in Python and good CS fundamentals.
• Proficiency with numerical computing libraries (Numpy, PyTorch, TensorFlow) is a plus.
• Knowledge of global portfolio financing and funding is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineers, researchers, and non-technical teams.

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 is hiring a Commodities Risk Manager for our NYC office. You will be responsible for designing, improving, managing, and communicating market and liquidity risk for commodities instruments and strategies. You will have a broad mandate to own and manage all aspects of commodities trading risk faced by the firm, while gaining exposure to the fast-paced world of automated trading alongside exceptionally talented people. 

The Risk team is a dynamic, highly collaborative group. As our first Commodities Risk Manager, you will make a tangible impact on a new growth area of HRT’s business. This will be a challenging role with a wide remit across multiple asset classes and investment horizons. 

Responsibilities

• Design new risk controls for commodities trading strategies (including futures relative value and derivative vs. physical) that appropriately control market, operational, funding and liquidity risk without disrupting trading activity
• Understand and advise senior management on the nuances of proposed new commodities strategies; investigate and onboard new strategies, assess their risk profile, and make recommendations on both the suitability and feasibility of any new strategies for the firm
• Analyze historical measures in order to calibrate thresholds 
• Design & build risk models to appropriately reflect idiosyncrasies of commodities products (e.g. seasonality)
• Monitor market, operational, and liquidity risk; partner with operations & execution trading teams to investigate & resolve risk limit breaches
• Collaborate with Operations to develop and implement new risk monitoring tools
• Evaluate bespoke trading opportunities
• Work on tactical projects with Finance, Operations, and Engineering

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a risk manager covering commodities in an investment bank, hedge fund, or asset manager
• Strong understanding of the commodities landscape (both futures and physical trading), as well as relative value hedge fund strategies 
• B.S. in mathematics, physics, economics, computer science, electrical engineering or statistics 
• Working knowledge of Python, Linux, SQL
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across the firm including traders, operations, and other risk managers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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 Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance Lead to join our growing Information Security team. This role will lead security governance programs for HRT entities based in America, Europe, and Asia, and will work directly on automating security governance at scale.

In this hands-on role, you will liaise closely with HRT’s Compliance and Legal teams to research, build, and maintain security solutions for a diverse set of industry regulations and requirements. You’ll lead a technical team responsible for owning and strategically ensuring HRT’s compliance with global security regulations, helping to equip HRT to enter new markets with increasingly complicated regulatory needs. 

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of security GRC engineers
• Perform internal and external security control assessments using industry standard frameworks such as NIST and CIS
• Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments
• Create and maintain security and compliance policies, standards, and guidelines
• Track regulatory security compliance obligations worldwide
• Work with cross-functional teams on program management to meet security and compliance KPIs
• Define critical success factors and KPIs to ensure firm-wide security compliance and security goals are met according to standards-based frameworks
• Monitor KPIs and create dashboards for real-time reports and board presentations
• Collect and analyze business metrics and build dashboards for reporting through data engineering
• Support the automation and governance of HRT’s critical security controls, encompassing:
• Vendor risk management
• Penetration testing
• Access management
• Ensure timely and accurate responses to requests for company data in collaboration with Compliance and Legal 

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity risk and/or compliance with significant experience at a company in a heavily regulated industry
• Software development and/or scripting experience, preferably in Python or Go
• Familiarity with standards-based security frameworks such as CIS, NIST-CSF, FedRAMP, or ISO
• Data analysis skills leveraging SQL, Elastic, OSQuery, and Prometheus preferred
• Experience building strong cross-functional relationships and working across multiple teams, both technical and non-technical
• Experience with Linux and comfortability on the command line (Debian is a huge plus!)
• Familiarity with financial industry regulations
• CISSP, CISM, or a similar certification is 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 (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 seeking a Windows Systems Engineer to join our Enterprise Engineering team. In this role, you will help scale HRT’s global hybrid Windows deployment and develop automation, configuration-as-code, and infrastructure-as-code solutions to seamlessly manage fleets of top-of-the-line user endpoints, mission critical servers, cloud infrastructure, and secure remote computing environments around the world. You will apply configuration-as-code practices to reduce operational overhead, build PowerShell-based systems that improve platform stability and resilience, and enhance the reliability of our Windows platform by designing and implementing automation that identifies and resolves technical inefficiencies across on-premises and Azure infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a Microsoft-based technology engineer and eager problem solver who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Terrific communication and collaboration skills, as well as a positive attitude towards team members and internal customers, are crucial to success within this role. 

Responsibilities

• Leverage configuration-as-code paradigms to reduce the operational overhead of managing Windows infrastructure
• Use infrastructure-as-code to consistently configure Microsoft Azure resources
• Develop PowerShell-based systems to automate operational tasks and enhance the reliability of the Windows platform
• Leverage automation to identify and remediate technical inefficiencies across Windows endpoints, Windows infrastructure, and Microsoft Azure resources
• Participate in ongoing engineering, maintenance, and support efforts to improve the Windows environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Microsoft-based technology engineer
• Experience using Ansible (or similar configuration-as-code tool) to manage a fleet of Windows devices
• Proven ability to provision Microsoft Azure resources with Terraform
• Proficiency with Microsoft Graph API development
• Experience developing scripts and tools using PowerShell
• Familiarity with Microsoft Intune, Autopilot, Entra ID, and Active Directory
• A general design approach that incorporates security best practices, business continuity, high availability, and scalability
• A self-motivated and driven work ethic

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 a quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technological innovation. We build and deploy cutting-edge systems within one of the world’s most advanced computing environments to power our global trading operations. Our bottom-up approach to projects and collaborative coding environment empower talented engineers to make significant contributions and see their impact daily. At HRT, you'll be challenged to solve the most complex problems in trading alongside many of the brightest minds in the field.

We are always seeking highly motivated and skilled Software Engineers across many different teams at HRT. These roles demand exceptional programming fundamentals, sharp debugging abilities, and strong critical thinking and communication skills. Engineers at HRT work on a wide variety of platform and trading-adjacent projects. Examples include:

• Improving scheduling efficiency of distributed computations, speeding up research iteration.
• Enhancing developer experience through language tooling, jupyter extensions, and AI tools.
• Leveraging LLMs to make operational support tasks faster and more efficient.
• Profiling computer usage at all levels, from system calls to large scale distributed computations.
• Building systems to interact with trading venues and monitor risk.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, efficient, and scalable software systems.
• Debug complex issues across distributed systems in a time-sensitive environment.
• Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and support.
• Deliver exceptional experiences for internal users; your success will be directly tied to your ability to understand the needs of the people around you and apply your technical skills to efficiently meet them.

Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. If you are currently pursuing your Bachelor's degree, please apply to our Campus/New Grad opportunities.
• Previous experience at a top-tier finance or technology company with an excellent track record of rapid advancement and superlative reviews.
• Experience with applications of cutting-edge technology is preferred; being a core contributor to said technology is even better.
• Candidates should be prepared for technical interviews in Python. While there is no hard language requirement for these roles, proficiency in one this language will be assessed during the interview process.
• Kindness and empathy is a real requirement. No “smart jerks” at HRT. 
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design principles.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• HRT ships every day. The ability to thoughtfully, methodically, and reliably deploy new software and features is a critical skill. 
• If you have management experience, that’s always a bonus – but even so, expect to code!

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.

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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.

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.

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 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 an ETF Sales Trader to join our Business Development team in New York City. This role will support HRT's Americas ETF business and help manage relationships with external market participants, exchanges, and broker-dealers.

This role provides exposure to a wide variety of trading across multiple asset classes and involves close collaboration with many teams across HRT. We’re looking for an enthusiastic learner with a keen interest in trading, technology, and a desire to make an immediate and tangible impact. The ideal candidate will be able to apply their ETF subject matter expertise to help guide the continued development of HRT's trading platform. 

Responsibilities

• Manage daily execution workflows, including trades occurring on and off RFQ platforms
• Establish and deepen relationships with key participants in the US ETF ecosystem, including broker/dealers and ETF issuers
• Ensure efficient execution of ETF block orders via RFQ platforms, voice, and working orders 
• Support automated and directed order flow
• Collaborate with various HRT teams to expand the firm's presence in ETFs and identify potential new opportunities
• Develop tools and reports to support ongoing coverage and communication with external partners and market participants
• Represent HRT at industry conferences, seminars, and client meetings 

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in ETF sales trading, capital markets, or related execution roles
• Deep understanding of ETF market mechanics, creation/redemption, US equity structure, and relevant regulations
• Proficiency with Python, Excel, and/or Unix command line is highly preferred
• FINRA Series 7, 57, 63, or willingness to obtain through HRT
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal abilities
• Strong work ethic and a desire to see complex projects through from concept to completion
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Keen interest in technology and trading is mandatory

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 seeking a Technical Recruiter to join our global Recruiting team. In this role, you will focus on hiring best-in-class engineers to expand our global compute platform. You will build out market maps, engage with deeply technical candidates, and manage the end-to-end hiring process for niche, high-impact engineering roles. 

HRT is one of the top quantitative trading firms in the world. We have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for quantitative research and development, with incredibly large GPU and CPU compute clusters (larger than most national labs). Our research cluster is the backbone of our success, and we have ambitious plans for future expansion. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most.

Responsibilities 

• Partner directly with engineering leadership on compute recruitment strategy, and be a proactive and consultative strategic partner to hiring managers 
• Manage the end-to-end hiring pipelines, from first outreach through offer acceptance, for compute team growth
• Provide a high-touch, white-glove candidate experience tailored to senior and hard-to-hire technical profiles 
• Develop deep knowledge of HRT’s compute development ecosystem 
• Conduct market research and talent mapping projects to identify top technical talent, uncover candidate trends, and complete competitor analyses
• Attract passive candidates using creative sourcing methods (open-source community involvement, network building, direct outreach, referrals) to build and maintain talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs 

Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of full life cycle technical recruiting experience 
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Proven success recruiting in specialized technical domains 
• Strong talent mapping capabilities—comfortable researching companies, org structures, roles, and skills in depth.
• Data-driven mindset with experience using recruiting analytics to guide strategy 
• Excellent cross-functional verbal and written communication skills 
• A passion for building technical teams and delivering outstanding candidate experience 
• Familiarity with the compute landscape; open-source communities, engineering conferences, or niche technical hiring channels preferred, but not required  

The estimated base salary range for this position is 170,000 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.

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.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a quantitative trading firm at the forefront of technological innovation in global financial markets. We build and deploy cutting-edge systems within one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for large-scale research and trading. Our research cluster is the backbone of our success—an HPC environment with GPU and CPU fleets larger than many national labs—and our people are our most important differentiator.

We are seeking a Hardware Strategy & Technology Partnership Lead to bridge the gap between hardware engineering and the technology supply chain. In this role, you will be the primary architect of HRT’s relationships with OEMs, ODMs, and silicon vendors. The ideal candidate understands the CSPs’ business models and how they differentiate, and possesses the expertise to navigate both the bare-metal world and the hyper-scaler ecosystem to ensure HRT always has a competitive edge in compute power and efficiency. You understand the "chip and server" business at a molecular level—not just what an R200 GPU or a Venice processor can do, but how the supply chain, the margins, and vendor roadmaps dictate the industry’s future.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Relationship Management: Lead HRT’s primary relationships with top-tier silicon (CPU/GPU/Storage), server and cloud vendors. Partner with their engineering and product teams to influence roadmaps and secure early access to next-gen tech.
• Vendor Negotiations: Own the end-to-end commercial and technical negotiation process. Leverage your deep understanding of BOM (Bill of Materials) costs and industry margins to drive the best outcomes for HRT’s global infrastructure.
• Supply Chain Intelligence: Act as our internal "SemiAnalysis/SemiAccurate" equivalent. Stay ahead of industry trends, tracking foundry shifts, packaging innovations, and geopolitical impacts on the hardware market to advise our leadership on long-term strategy. Help us decide when to build, when to go to the cloud, and how to optimize our footprint across global data centers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work side-by-side with our R&D and Trading Tech engineers and data center teams to deeply understand HRT's technology and business, and translate that knowledge into long-term strategic and acquisition planning.

Qualifications

• Deep Industry Knowledge: You have a "feet on both sides" profile, with a background that likely includes time at a major hardware vendor, a hyper-scaler, or a top-tier industry research firm.
• Technical Fluency: You can talk shop with hardware engineers about PCIe lanes, memory bandwidth, and thermal envelopes, but you can also walk into a boardroom and negotiate a multi-million dollar master purchase agreement.
• Market Strategy: You have a proven track record of solving complex infrastructure needs for large-scale compute environments.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You are a self-starter who is motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automation and hardware efficiency.

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

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000-300,000 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 Technical Recruiter to join our global Recruiting team. In this role, you will focus on hiring engineers across our Trading Technology (live trading environment) and Research & Development (enabling research) engineering teams. You will partner directly with hiring managers who have incredibly high standards, helping them navigate a competitive talent landscape. You will engage with deeply technical candidates, and manage the end-to-end hiring process for a variety of technical roles within HRT’s engineering ecosystem. 

HRT is one of the top quantitative trading firms in the world. We combine world-class engineering and scientific rigor with a low-ego, collaborative culture. Our people and our compute capabilities are our two most important differentiators, and that is where we are investing the most. We want recruiters who bring a unique perspective and curiosity, who can challenge the status quo of how to find the brilliant yet humble technical talent that make HRT so special. 

Responsibilities 

• Partner directly with engineering leadership on recruitment strategy, and be a proactive and consultative strategic partner to hiring managers
• Manage the end-to-end hiring pipelines of engineering roles from first outreach through offer acceptance, including navigating complex offer negotiations
• Provide a high-touch, white-glove candidate experience across both opportunistic roles and high-volume pipelines
• Apply an engineering mindset to your recruitment approach, continuously leveraging recruiting data & analytics to identify inefficiencies and iterate on your process
• Build relationships with external recruitment agencies to generate high-quality candidate flow for your roles
• Conduct market research and talent mapping projects to identify top technical talent, uncover candidate trends, and complete competitor analyses
• Attract passive candidates using creative sourcing methods (open-source community involvement, network building, direct outreach, referrals) to build and maintain talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs

Qualifications 

• 3+ years of full life cycle technical recruiting experience 
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Proven success recruiting in specialized technical domains 
• Strong talent mapping capabilities—comfortable researching companies, org structures, roles, and skills in depth
• Data-driven mindset with experience using recruiting analytics to guide strategy 
• Excellent cross-functional verbal and written communication skills 
• A passion for building technical teams and delivering an outstanding candidate experience 

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 seeking a curious, innovative Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Security team and help safeguard the infrastructure behind one of the world’s most demanding trading environments, with a focus on both performance and resilience. This role spans system hardening across infrastructure and Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints, ownership of a comprehensive vulnerability management program, securing SaaS deployments, maintaining an enterprise-grade open source PKI platform, and strengthening identity and access management.

You will have significant autonomy to shape HRT’s global cybersecurity systems, building solutions that scale without compromising performance. The role requires broad experience across enterprise security domains and a pragmatic approach to integrating security into development workflows, emphasizing defense-in-depth while minimizing friction for developers.

Responsibilities

• Apply security baselines and harden systems across a diverse fleet of enterprise endpoints and servers (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• Own and evolve our vulnerability management program, including risk prioritization and remediation workflows
• Design and operate Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions at enterprise scale
• Secure and manage key enterprise SaaS platforms and their security controls
• Build and scale an enterprise-grade public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Leverage configuration management and infrastructure as code to enforce security controls, prioritizing automation over manual processes

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience hardening enterprise endpoints across Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Strong experience with vulnerability management tools and processes, including risk prioritization and remediation workflows
• Experience securing and managing enterprise SaaS platforms
• Experience designing and operating Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems (Smallstep a plus)
• Experience designing and maintaining Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and building automated controls for infrastructure
• Familiarity with software supply chain security

The estimated base salary range for this position is 150,000 - 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 seeking a highly experienced and versatile Workday Financials Product Owner to join our Enterprise Applications team. In this role, you will work among a small team of Workday systems administrators who serve as hands-on, end-to-end subject matter experts for Workday Finance and drive the platform's configuration, operations, and adoption across our Finance, HR, and Procurement teams.

This role requires a unique blend of strategic leadership skills, deep technical proficiency in Workday, and a commitment to continuous process improvement, as well as the ability to balance the need for scale with the thoughtful management of bespoke processes designed for multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an end-to-end Workday subject matter expert, managing configuration, troubleshooting break/fix issues, and providing operational support across all modules
• Contribute at all levels, from low-level ticket resolution to high-level strategy and leadership collaboration
• Help define and manage the Enterprise Application team’s quarterly roadmap, ensuring platform evolution aligns with HRT's strategic goals; expect to manage competing priorities and new requirements on a regular basis
• Partner with teams across the business to improve and re-engineer processes primarily related to finance operations, reporting, and procurement, with a focus on compliance, efficiency, and automation
• Integrate Workday seamlessly into HRT’s broader enterprise architecture stack
• Improve data governance and ensure solutions are technically cohesive for all stakeholders
• Maintain and advance HRT’s strong relationships with Workday product providers and customer contacts to ensure the firm receives optimal customer care and stays ahead of product capabilities

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Workday Finance experience in a technical capacity
• A degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field is a plus
• Demonstrable expertise across Workday Financials (Accounting, Asset Management, Expenses Procurement, Suppliers), Extend, Adaptive Planning, Prism, Workday HCM, and Security
• Expert-level knowledge of web integrations – including Studio, EIBs, connectors, and API strategy – and an understanding of the underlying SOAP/REST/WQL architecture is highly recommended
• Strong understanding of security, data governance, and regulatory compliance practices in a financial or high-tech environment
• Exceptional program management skills and proficiency with Jira for roadmap management and execution tracking

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 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.

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.

HRT is seeking quantitative researchers to join our effort in developing mid-frequency systematic trading strategies. Candidates will apply rigorous statistical methods on a wide range of datasets and implement trading models based on novel predictions of market behavior, all while leveraging HRT’s world-class research and trading infrastructure.

Successful candidates will be part of a growing effort and have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of strategy development, including alpha generation, portfolio construction/optimization and trade execution algorithms. Researchers are responsible for not only prototyping and conducting research into various strategy components, but also writing code to productionalize their ideas; thus, interest and experience in programming are essential.

HRT employees enjoy a collegial and non-siloed environment; candidates will work closely with other researchers to develop new ideas and refine existing trading models.

Skills

• 3+ years of prior work experience in stat-arb required
• Degree in a quantitative or technical discipline (e.g. statistics, computer science, physics, mathematics, economics)
• Exceptional academic credentials
• Demonstrated ability to conduct research using large noisy real-world datasets
• Exceptional attention to detail and desire to understand issues deeply
• Outstanding work ethic and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong numerical programming skills, including proficiency in Python for data analysis and machine learning. Experience with C++ a plus

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $300,000 per year, based on job-related skills and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading is seeking an IT generalist with Python programming experience to join our Enterprise Engineering team. In this role, you will design, manage, and connect the core productivity services that help every HRTer go fast.

You will be responsible for ensuring tools like Slack, Google Workspace, and Okta – the chat, email, docs, and login services people need to get stuff done in a globally distributed company – work reliably and well with one another. You will also help manage a variety of key productivity services, including niche third-party products and internally-built platforms, tune them to perfection, build automation to minimize manual operations, and craft bespoke tools to fill in the gaps. We’re here to make all of these services work for HRTers while ensuring that the tools do the heavy lifting and stay out of the way.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other engineering and operations teams to ensure our core user platforms are intuitive, reliable, and a pleasure to use
• Find, enhance, or build the best productivity and collaboration systems that allow HRTers to excel at their work
• Lead and manage complex technical projects with multiple stakeholders across the business
• Build features HRT needs like SCIM, config management, and self-service interfaces
• Manage user identities and access policies across a wide variety of internal and external systems
• Glue a variety of in-house and third party systems together, customizing an ecosystem for HRT’s highly specific needs
• Get things done in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Automate away toil
• Go beyond self-service to enable “it already happened”-service

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, IT engineering, or related disciplines
• Python programming experience
• You code regularly as part of your current role
• You’ve built tools or systems from the ground up that other people use
• Superior design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience programming against SaaS and Cloud platform APIs for integration and automation
• Experience managing enterprise software deployments, including standard integrations like SSO, SCIM, and PAM
• Basic familiarity with Linux and comfort navigating the command line

The estimated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year, based on job-related 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 hiring an AI Researcher to join the HAIL team. HAIL (HRT AI Labs) is the team at HRT responsible for developing and maintaining our most powerful models, which are used by our trading teams to drive a significant fraction of our trading. We are building and deploying "foundation models for markets", that ingest and train on vast amounts of market data, to make predictions about future market state. We are seeking experienced AI researchers to join our team to accelerate our efforts.

Researchers have great independence to pursue the research directions they think would be most impactful as part of a small focused team with minimal bureaucracy. They are enabled by state-of-the-art research clusters with very high GPU-to-researcher ratios, and supported by excellent engineering, hardware, and systems teams to realize their vision. Your work will be directly, clearly, highly impactful on the business, and it will be challenging: this is a field with no easy or obvious solutions. You'll be responsible for improving every part of our models: from featurization of data, to architecture design, to training dynamics, to how trading decisions are made.

Qualifications

• Must have two or more years work experience in deep learning research, for any domain: robotics, biology, chemistry, physics, audio, video, etc.
• Experience translating methods between areas of application is highly valued.
• LLM experience is valuable, but not necessary.
• Strong engineering skills valued, especially any of: GPU kernel development, lower-level Pytorch/JAX development, intermediate C++, FPGA/ASIC experience, HPC experience.

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.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an Indirect Tax Specialist to join our growing Tax team. In this role, you will help ensure HRT’s global VAT/GST tax compliance, provide tax support for international imports, US state and local sales & use tax compliance, and collaborate with various internal teams to improve indirect tax reporting and indirect tax efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all indirect tax compliance matters for all HRT entities
• Prepare VAT/GST return workpapers for all global affiliates across multiple jurisdictions
• Manage US sales and use tax compliance
• Work with external advisors on the review and filing of all indirect tax returns
• Provide support for indirect tax inquiries from tax authorities
• Coordinate with logistics teams to manage indirect tax matters for international shipments and imports
• Work closely with internal accounting, accounts payable, and IT teams to ensure accurate reporting of indirect tax in the ERP system and help create process improvements
• Collaborate with finance, legal, and technology teams on projects to improve indirect tax efficiencies
• Research and analyze global indirect tax issues and communicate findings clearly to internal stakeholders 
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments impacting international indirect tax

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, tax, or related field
• 5+ years of indirect tax experience, with a strong focus on VAT/GST compliance
• Understanding of various international indirect tax regimes and experience managing compliance obligations across multiple jurisdictions
• Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with the indirect tax rules of new tax jurisdictions
• Strong Excel skills, with the ability to independently read, edit, and create tax workpapers and the ability to understand and work with relevant financial and transaction data
• Strong project management skills, with excellent organizational abilities and meticulous attention to detail
• Exceptional cross-functional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Impeccable ethics, integrity, and discretion when working with confidential information
• Ability to work both independently and within a team, and take initiative to identify and resolve issues
• Experience with Workday as an accounting system preferred
• International trade and customs experience preferred
• US state and local sales & use tax experience preferred
• Public accounting and/or tech industry experience preferred

The estimated base salary range for this position is 125,000 - 175,000 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 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.

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