Systems Engineer, Hudson River Trading
Research & Development
$200-250k
Automated trading algorithms developer
Open for applications
Automated trading algorithms developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hudson River Trading's mission is to bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in large-scale Linux systems engineering in HPC, AI or distributed infrastructure roles
- Extensive experience in Linux system installation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
- Expertise in troubleshooting distributed GPU workloads
- Deep knowledge around GPU optimization and performance
- Proficiency in Python scripting and automation frameworks
- CUDA or C/C++ experience a plus
- Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g. Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Comfortable diagnosing complex system issues at the hardware, OS, and network levels
- Strong communication and organizational skills; able to collaborate across diverse technical teams
- Thrive in fast-paced environments and excited by high-impact work
What the job involves
- Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for candidates to join our growing Research and Development team to help build and maintain an exceptionally sophisticated HPC/AI research environment
- We design and operate infrastructure at a large scale, including triple-digit petabyte-scale storage, massive CPU and GPU clusters on globally distributed data centers
- We’re hiring Systems Engineers to help scale and evolve this platform
- You’ll join a team responsible for the compute, storage, operating systems, and automation tools that enable our trading and research to run 24/7 across the globe
- This is a high-impact role with broad scope, from HPC/AI cluster design and performance tuning, to troubleshooting and automation for thousands of nodes
- Design, build, and optimize large-scale Linux-based distributed compute clusters, including cutting-edge many-GPU systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking layers
- Collaborate with research and development teams to profile, benchmark, and fine-tune GPU-based workloads
- Automate system deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting across thousands of nodes
- Collaborate with research, and engineering teams to support evolving workloads
- Own critical infrastructure projects—from concept to implementation and support
- Test and deploy new hardware and software, and partner with vendors to resolve complex issues
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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