AI Researcher, LLMs

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an LLM-focused AI Researcher to join the HAIL team. HAIL (HRT AI Labs) is the team at HRT responsible for developing and maintaining our most powerful AI models, which are used by our trading teams to drive a significant fraction of our trading. The LLM team within HAIL builds large language models from scratch — pretraining, post-training, and serving — that are deployed across the firm to accelerate research, engineering, and trading workflows. Our goal is to produce LLMs that are genuinely best-in-world for the use cases we care about. In this role, you'll work on every stage of the model development loop: tokenizer training, dataset curation and mixing, pretraining, post-training, evaluation design, inference, and live trading. HAIL researchers have great independence to pursue the directions they think would be most impactful as part of a small, focused team with minimal bureaucracy. They are enabled by state-of-the-art research clusters with very high GPU-to-researcher ratios, and supported by excellent engineering, hardware, and systems teams to realize their vision. The work is challenging and visibly impactful, and the bar is high: we...