Machine Learning at HRT
At the forefront of
deep learning in finance.
HRT AI Labs [HAIL]
For over a decade, Hudson River Trading has integrated cutting-edge AI research and infrastructure into our trading strategies.
Deep learning is core to our trading. From the initial stages of market research to final trade execution and risk management, nearly every trade we make is influenced by a model we’ve developed – giving us a unique edge to tap into and shape the exciting innovation happening across the space. Our teams of researchers and engineers leverage the latest advances in academic research and computing to build and innovate on the most predictive automated trading systems in the world.
Extreme Technical Challenges at Scale
The nature of trading makes it an extremely challenging domain to apply machine learning. We process vast amounts of market data containing very little signal, making it easy to overfit to noise. Our models must be robust to distributional shifts caused by a rapidly evolving world and adversarial actors who adapt to our behavior and train against our latest models. All of this must happen while processing millions of bursty, irregularly spaced events in real time and making optimal decisions under uncertainty.
Watch: Inside HRT AI Labs: Machine Learning for Financial Markets
Join a Rigorous Research Culture
Hudson River Trading stands apart in our industry due to our extremely open, collaborative research environment and strong common technological platform that allows us to innovate rapidly.
Here, you’ll leverage one of the largest and most sophisticated GPU compute clusters in global finance, and work alongside some of the best researchers and engineers in the field to push the boundary of deep learning at scale. We have a meritocratic, low-politics culture, where our researchers spend nearly all of their time on research and innovation is rewarded.
— HRT AI Labs’ Iain Dunning on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots Podcast
AI / ML Opportunities at HRT
AI Researcher
We are hiring experienced AI researchers to accelerate the development of models that drive a significant fraction of HRT’s trading. Researchers work with minimal bureaucracy, strong independence, high GPU-to-researcher ratios, and excellent engineering support. 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.
Summer Internship: Algorithm Developer
Applications Open Late July 2026
Algorithm Developer interns are matched to a variety of teams across the firm, including HAIL, where they work on real problems and apply AI techniques to trading. Interns rotate through different groups and contribute directly to active research projects. In just five weeks, past interns have helped build models, run experiments, and explore new data.
PhD Winternship
Applications Open Late July 2026
Our PhD Winternship is an intensive, two-week program for PhD students to apply their research skills to trading. Interns work on real problems with guidance from HRT researchers. The program includes deep technical discussions, mentorship, and hands-on project work.