Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to the trading of financial products. The company has built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, with a level of research staff at the forefront of innovation in algorithmic trading. At HRT, members of the firm come from a variety of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics and engineering, and are a motivated group of people who are passionate about automated trading because of their passion for it.