Hudson River Trading
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How Hudson River Trading hires
Truth index
C 69/100
Ghost roles
51%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Hudson River Trading scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 78 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 51% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
Hudson River Trading is a New York quantitative trading firm that uses automated, research-driven strategies to trade equities, futures, options, currencies and other instruments on markets around the world. Founded in 2002, it builds its own low-latency trading systems, FPGA and ASIC hardware and machine learning models through its HRT AI Labs team, and has offices in cities including London, Chicago, Singapore, Austin, Boulder and Seattle. It hires software, hardware and design verification engineers, AI researchers, data scientists, network architects, electronic trading support engineers, tax, treasury and accounting specialists and interns.
News
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Trading (2021)
In the past few years it has been hard to escape the ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence. Although everything from your phone to your car or even your refrigerator might be endowed with AI, what is actually considered AI will vary widely from person to pe
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Designing a SystemVerilog Language Server
At HRT, pushing technical boundaries often means moving beyond the constraints of standard software. Some of the ways we accomplish this are by deploying FPGA and ASIC solutions which allow us to reach latency and throughput levels unattainable with gener
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HeraclesQL: A Python DSL for Writing Alerts
I'm on the Systems Dev team at HRT. My team is responsible for software development that supports Systems, Network, and Datacenter Engineers who maintain the computers HRT relies on for trading and research. While my team has a large variety of responsibi
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Answers to Questions I Often Get: Engineering and Interviewing at HRT
It's been over a decade since I last wrote something about HRT. A lot has changed since then. HRT is much larger, and we trade in many more venues and in many different time horizons. But I still feel like the fundamental vibe is, thankfully, similar.
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Building a Distributed Filesystem for Scalable Research
The ability to store and analyze vast amounts of data is table stakes for an algorithmic trading firm like Hudson River Trading.
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Inside HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports
At HRT, we've found that centralizing our codebase facilitates cross-team collaboration and rapid deployment of new projects. Therefore, the majority of our software development takes place in a monorepo, and our Python ecosystem is set up such that inter
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How Our Engineers Hot-Patched a Third Party Binary Library
At HRT, low-level engineers face and solve as a team all kinds of technical challenges. This post documents a quite involved but particularly fun one. We had to delve into the intricacies of the system and learned a lot on the way. We hope you will too.
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Intern Spotlight: 2023 Software Engineering Summer Projects
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity on global markets and directly to our clients.
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Intern Spotlight: 2023 HRT AI Labs Summer Projects
HAIL (HRT AI Labs) once again hosted many Algo Developer interns during the HRT 2023 Algo Summer Internship program. Like last year, these interns tackled a broad variety of problems that the HAIL team works on every day to apply artificial intelligence i
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Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Huge Pages (Part 1)
Latency is often a crucial factor in algorithmic trading. At HRT, a lot of effort goes into minimizing the latency of our trading stack. Low latency optimizations can be arcane, but fortunately there are a lot of very good guides and documents to get star
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Hudson River Trading over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
73
Postings analysed
51
Stack modernity
69/100AI adopter
Languages
Python80%
C++33%
SQL14%
MATLAB10%
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy12%
PyTorch12%
Cocotb8%
Pandas8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux41%
Unix24%
Windows6%
Azure4%
AI & ML
LLM12%
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Full Hudson River Trading tech stack
73 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$120k – $302k
Open positions
61
44
Jobs
Intern
13.6%
Junior
29.5%
Middle
9.1%
Senior
34.1%
Staff
11.4%
Architect
2.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 6 | $302k | $302k |
| Junior | 13 | $300k | $150k – $300k |
| Middle | 4 | $205k | $120k – $300k |
| Senior | 15 | $250k | $140k – $300k |
| Staff | 5 | $275k | $250k – $300k |
| Architect | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Algorithm Development (Quant Research & Trading) Internship – Summer 2027
$302k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Hudson River Trading
By role, level and city, against the market · 61 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
78
4 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
32 days
faster than 39% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
14% ▼
Support
12% ▼
Finance
12% ▲
Operations
12% ▲
AI/ML
9% ▼
HR
9%
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
22
Hiring now
11
Countries
9
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
New York City
64 open roles 31 posted in 90 days 64% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $265k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, AI/ML, Backend
London
United Kingdom
Regional office
Singapore
33 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 70% engineering 200-500 est. staff $285k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, HR
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
23 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff $301k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Networking, Support
Chicago
United States
Engineering / R&D
Chicago QTS
23 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 87% engineering 200-500 est. staff $285k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, AI/ML
Austin
United States
Engineering / R&D
Austin
20 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 85% engineering 200-500 est. staff $282k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, AI/ML
Boulder
United States
Engineering / R&D
Boulder
10 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 50-200 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, AI/ML, Backend
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
Seattle
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 50-200 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Networking
Dublin
Ireland
Regional office
Dublin
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Support
Carteret
United States
Regional office
Carteret
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $135k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative, Operations
Mumbai
India
Mumbai
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Security
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Regional office
Hong Kong
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
San Francisco
Shanghai
China
Regional office
Shanghai
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
Seoul
Miami
United States
Regional office
Miami
Sarasota
United States
Regional office
Sarasota
Boston
United States
Regional office
Boston
Rochester
United States
Regional office
Rochester
Toronto
Canada
Regional office
Toronto
Bellevue
United States
Regional office
Bellevue
Tarrytown
United States
Regional office
Westchester
Slough
United Kingdom
Regional office
Slough
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$150k – $300k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · Austin · Chicago · London · New York
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$302k per year · In office · Internship · Austin · Chicago · London · New York
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$302k per year · In office · Internship · New York
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$300k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · New York
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$100k – $150k per year · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Dublin
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$300k per year · In office · Bachelor's Degree · New York
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Machine Learning
DevOps
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Verilator
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$302k per year · In office · Internship · PhD · London · New York
Python
C++
MATLAB
Pandas
NumPy
Time Series
Machine Learning
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