Hudson River Trading

HRT's student opportunities page publishes a layered set of programs by class year and degree level, all fully in-person across its NYC, London, and Singapore offices unless noted:

• Summer internships (late May to mid-August, for 2027 graduates): Software Engineering, Algorithm Development (quant research), Algorithm Development PhD, and Algorithm Trading (NYC only).
• Sophomore Internship (summer, NYC, for 2028 graduates): rotates between Algorithm Development and Software Engineering teams.
• Winter internships (2 to 4 weeks in January): Women in Trading & Technology (second-year students from underrepresented backgrounds, NYC) and the PhD Winter Internship (NYC).
• Spring early-talent programs: Inside HRT (three-day immersive for first- and second-year STEM students, NYC and Singapore) and Explore HRT (multi-day program for 2028 graduates, NYC, London, and Singapore).
• Full-time entry-level for 2026 graduates: Algorithm Developer, Software Engineer (C++/Python), and Hardware Design Engineer (NYC only).

For a candidate, the ladder is explicit: Inside HRT or Explore HRT in first or second year feeds into the Sophomore Internship, which feeds into a senior-year summer internship, which the firm uses as the primary conversion path into a full-time role. Choosing the wrong year's program – for example applying to the Sophomore Internship as a senior – closes the application, so reading the cohort-year tag on each listing matters before submitting.

The firm operates its own hardware engineering practice – building custom FPGA and ASIC compute engines for low-latency trading rather than relying solely on commodity infrastructure – as visible across its careers listings for Physical Design, Design Verification, and Hardware Product Management roles. Independent reporting via Wikipedia, citing Bloomberg, notes the firm accounted for roughly 5% of all US trading in 2014, employs more than 1,000 people across offices including New York, Chicago, Austin, Boulder, London, Singapore, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dublin, and generated about $1.2 billion in Q1 2021. For an early-career applicant, the implication is unusually direct access to the full stack: algorithm research, software engineering on a Python/C++ stack, and bespoke hardware design sit inside the same firm rather than across multiple vendors, so a candidate weighing low-latency hardware exposure against pure quantitative-research work can find both internal tracks here without changing employer.