Algorithm Development (Quant Research & Trading) PhD Internship – Summer 2027

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking exceptional full-time PhD students to join our Algorithm Development summer internship program. Algorithm Developers at HRT focus on the research and implementation of automated trading strategies.

We trade on more than 200 markets around the world, across a variety of time horizons – offering ample opportunities to explore innovative, self-guided research and make a big impact on our business. Through this internship, you’ll have the opportunity to rotate across teams, learning and collaborating alongside researchers and technologists that apply their passion and expertise to solving the most nuanced problems in our industry. 

What to Expect

• Use advanced research experience and expertise to apply academic research to impactful real-world problems in trading across time horizons and machine learning strategies
• Leverage our proprietary infrastructure (Python/C++) in conjunction with third-party tools to conduct quantitative research and data analysis
• Use machine learning and time series techniques to derive novel insights on market behavior from large and complex datasets
• Utilize our industry-leading compute cluster to run simulations and crunch data
• Build predictive models for financial markets using a combination of market and non-market dat