Hudson River Trading

Hudson River Trading was founded in 2002 by graduates of Harvard and MIT with backgrounds in computer science and mathematics. It began in U.S. equities and expanded into a global, multi-asset trading firm headquartered in New York City.

HRT researches and develops automated trading algorithms and provides liquidity across global electronic markets, trading financial products for clients and on its own systems. Its work combines quantitative research with software, hardware, data, and infrastructure engineering.

For students, HRT is especially relevant to careers in algorithm development, quantitative research, software engineering, hardware design, and market-making technology. The firm also maintains open-source projects and contributions, giving its technical culture a more visible engineering footprint than many proprietary trading firms.