Senior Software Engineer, Hudson River Trading
Performance Optimization
$200-300k
Automated trading algorithms developer
Job no longer available
Automated trading algorithms developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hudson River Trading's mission is to bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.
Role
Who you are
- Expert level C++ programming ability, including low-level
- 10+ years of relevant experience in HPC/AI performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to optimize complex workloads across multiple software stacks
- Experience with AI frameworks (PyTorch, TF, MXNet, etc.) and accelerated programming stacks (CUDA, MPI, AVX, or similar)
- Quantitative/data-oriented mindset
- Great communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical ideas to a variety of stakeholders across the firm
- Track record of leading complex projects end-to-end
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and strategically grow successful teams
What the job involves
- Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a lead software engineer with a specialization in performance engineering to optimize our high-performance and AI compute workloads
- This role will apply broad engineering skills across infrastructure, tools, and applications to optimize the performance of our most critical workloads
- This will allow us to accelerate innovation and update our strategies faster, a crucial component of HRT’s continued success in advanced automated trading
- Successful candidates will operate across multiple stacks and synthesize a holistic view of challenges and potential solutions
- This role is well-positioned to be successful within HRT’s collegial and non-siloed environment as it involves working closely with a wide range of stakeholders and teams to make our high-perf applications as efficient as possible
- Investigate and measure the performance of AI and other high-performance compute workloads
- Optimize workload performance by designing and implementing solutions across infrastructure, tools, and application code
- Track the performance of workloads over time and identify potential areas for long-term investments and improvements
- Partner with users and platform engineers to understand workload priority and ensure all stakeholders are aligned with suggested plans
- Identify, hire, and mentor engineers to accelerate the performance improvement work
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 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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