Experienced Software Engineer, Hudson River Trading
AI Tools
$150-250k
This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses
Automated trading algorithms developer
Open for applications
Automated trading algorithms developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-250k
This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hudson River Trading's mission is to bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Hudson River Trading is a quantitative trading firm founded by a team of experienced venture capital experts, including computer scientists, mathematicians, and software engineers. It aims to bring a more scientific and mathematical approach to trading, operating a computing environment for the research and development of trading algorithms.
HRT's team includes a number of mathematicians, engineers and physicists. This academic approach has paid off, with HRT now having several offices around the world and boasting billions in trading capital. The firm is also a part of the DeFi Pyth network, marking a move towards crypto equity, which gives it access to an even wider range of investors and capital.
Although the trading market is crowded, HRT has proved the value of its code-first approach to trading and hence found a space for itself. HRT now invests in new blockchain companies that share its values. The company continues to innovate, which should provide the path to finding further success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- MERIT: Our people are motivated by a culture that promotes hard work and intellect over corporate politics.
- MEALS & SNACKS: HRTers enjoy breakfast and lunch together (chef-prepared in NYC, reimbursement or catered options for other offices), healthy snacks, a coffee bar, and a well-stocked beer and wine fridge.
- COMFORT: If you come to work dressed up, expect to explain what you’re doing that night for the rest of the day.
- FITNESS: On-site cardio and weight room in NYC (fitness reimbursement for other offices), regular yoga classes, and a 7-Minute Workout club.
- SOCIAL AT HRT: Our social calendar includes regular happy hours, outings, team dinners, and sports.
- PLAY TANK: Unwind at the end of a long day with video games, board games, foosball, or table tennis.
- VACATION: Generous paid vacation plus personal days and market holidays (or days in lieu).
- HEALTH: Generously subsidized healthcare coverage, vision and company paid dental insurance, paid time off for sick days, paid medical/disability leave, and fully covered access to a mental health counselor, as well as access to the Modern Health platform.
- FAMILY TIME: 12-week paid parental leave policy and family friendly events.
- EDUCATION: Tuition assistance, professional development, and on-the-job training.
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Jason Caroll
(Managing Director)Previously worked as an Analyst at Tower Research Capital.
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