AI Researcher

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is hiring an AI Researcher to join the HAIL team HAIL (HRT AI Labs) is the team at HRT responsible for developing and maintaining our most powerful models, which are used by our trading teams to drive a significant fraction of our trading We are building and deploying "foundation models for markets", that ingest and train on vast amounts of market data, to make predictions about future market state We are seeking experienced AI researchers to join our team to accelerate our efforts Researchers have great independence to pursue the research directions they think would be most impactful as part of a small focused team with minimal bureaucracy They are enabled by state-of-the-art research clusters with very high GPU-to-researcher ratios, and supported by excellent engineering, hardware, and systems teams to realize their vision Your work will be directly, clearly, highly impactful on the business, and it will be challenging: this is a field with no easy or obvious solutions You'll be responsible for improving every part of our models: from featurization of data, to architecture design, to training dynamics, to how trading decisions are made

Hudson River Trading (HRT) 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.