Hudson River Trading · 20 hours ago
Market Structure Optimization Engineer
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
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
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
Hudson River Trading opertes as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm.
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