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Hudson River Trading · 1 day ago

Market Structure Optimization Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$150K/yr - $250K/yr

Hudson River Trading is hiring a Market Structure Optimization Engineer for their new Market Structure Analytics team. This role focuses on employing data-driven methodologies to enhance the performance of HRT's trading by minimizing friction in real-time market interactions.

Financial Services

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Analyze time series network and exchange protocol captures

Become familiar with the details of specific markets, attend presentations and liaise with exchange counterparts

Research exchange features, capabilities, and architecture

Automate collection and visualization of metrics that quantify efficacy of exchange communication

Formulate and conduct controlled experiments that measure impact of calculated changes to HRT’s trading infrastructure

Communicate ideas, requirements, and results across disparate teams

Improve fill rate of our hardware-based trading strategy

Reduce incidence of cancel-reject responses

Investigate and report details of various latency-sensitive exchanges

Qualification

Data analyticsPythonTCPUDP protocolsLatency reductionData visualizationLarge data setsComputer systems knowledgeReal time exchange data

Required

You possess a degree in Data Analytics or a related field

You can collect and interpret network and/or financial market data

You have professional experience in latency reduction, preferably in finance

You have a basic understanding of proprietary trading and exchange technologies

Proficiency in data analytics including statistics, data visualization, and working with large data sets

Basic understanding of TCP and UDP network protocols

Extensive experience with Python and relevant data libraries (Pandas, Numpy/Scipy)

Some familiarity with the details of modern computer systems and networks

Preferred

Experience with real time exchange market data and order entry a plus

Benefits

Discretionary performance-based bonuses

Competitive benefits package

Company

Hudson River Trading

Glassdoor4.5

Hudson River Trading opertes as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm.

Founded in 2002

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com

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