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  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 44 · green card filings: 22
  • United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

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Overview

Hudson River Trading is a quantitative trading firm built by mathematicians and engineers. It trades a large share of daily volume on global equity and futures venues using automated strategies. The firm develops its own research infrastructure and low-latency systems.

News

News hudsonrivertrading.com 3 months ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 7 months ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 12 months ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 1 year ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 1 year ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 1 year ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 3 years ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 3 years ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 3 years ago
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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News Hudson River Trading 4 years ago
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
50
Stack modernity
69/100AI adopter
Languages
Python80%
C++34%
SQL12%
MATLAB10%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch12%
NumPy10%
Cocotb8%
Pandas8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux40%
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
62
45 Jobs
Intern 13.3%
Junior 28.9%
Middle 8.9%
Senior 35.6%
Staff 11.1%
Architect 2.2%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 6 $302k $302k
Junior 13 $300k $150k – $300k
Middle 4 $205k $120k – $300k
Senior 16 $250k $130k – $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 · 62 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
20/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
80
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
1881 days
faster than 2% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
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
10% ▼
HR
10% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+4 in 30 days)

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
65 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 63% engineering $263k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, AI/ML, Backend
seen since Nov 2019 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
Singapore
33 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 70% engineering $285k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, HR
seen since Nov 2019 careers board, job postings
Chicago United States
Engineering / R&D
Chicago QTS
24 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 88% engineering $286k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, AI/ML
seen since Nov 2019 careers board
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
23 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering $301k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Networking, Support
seen since Nov 2019 careers board, job postings
Austin United States
Engineering / R&D
Austin
20 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 85% engineering $282k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, AI/ML
seen since Mar 2025 careers board
Boulder United States
Engineering / R&D
Boulder
10 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 90% engineering $300k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, AI/ML, Backend
seen since Mar 2025 careers board
Seattle United States
Engineering / R&D
Seattle
6 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 83% engineering $300k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Networking, Backend
seen since Nov 2019 careers board
Dublin Ireland
Regional office
Dublin
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days $150k Avg Salary
hires for Support
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
Carteret United States
Regional office
Carteret
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days $135k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative, Operations
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
Mumbai India
Mumbai
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Security
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Hong Kong Hong Kong
Regional office
Hong Kong
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
seen since Oct 2024 careers board, job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
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Shanghai China
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Shanghai
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Seoul South Korea
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Seoul
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Miami United States
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Miami
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Sarasota United States
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Boston United States
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Rochester United States
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Rochester
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Toronto Canada
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Bellevue United States
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Bellevue
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Tarrytown United States
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Westchester
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Slough United Kingdom
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Jobs

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$150k – $250k per year • In office • 8+ years exp • London • New York
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$150k – $250k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Austin • Chicago • London • New York
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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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$300k per year • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Austin • Chicago • London • New York
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$302k per year • In office • Internship • New York
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Machine Learning
DevOps
Linux
Chips/EDA
UVM
Cocotb
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$300k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
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Machine Learning
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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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$302k per year • In office • Internship • London • New York
Python
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$302k per year • In office • Internship • PhD • London • New York
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Machine Learning
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