How can I find internship opportunities as a freshman?
How can I find internship opportunities as a freshman?


Build the Future of Trading
Hudson River Trading (HRT) is one of the world’s leading automated trading firms, utilizing the latest advancements in machine learning, high-performance computing, and industry knowledge to have an outsized impact on 200+ worldwide markets. Bolstered by an open research environment and close cross-functional collaboration, we are constantly improving predictions and outperforming our peers. Our trading spans strategies, markets, time horizons, and asset classes, and is built on mathematical rigor, thoughtful engineering, and a responsibility toward well-functioning markets.
We welcome deep thinkers from a range of backgrounds. Whether your expertise lies in math, computer science, physics, or beyond, your passion for problem-solving has power here.

At HRT, Algorithm Developers build and maintain the models that drive our trading, applying rigorous statistical analysis to vast amounts of market and financial data to create predictive trading models.
During their rotation on HRT AI Labs (HAIL) last year, one of our Algorithm Developer Interns asked if diffusion models can learn to generate synthetic stock returns that reflect real-world structure – including tail events, volatility regimes, and cross-stock dependencies. Discover how Sean Li adapted image-generation techniques to financial time-series, pushing the boundaries of what diffusion models can do in quantitative finance.
