HRT & Virtu scout coders with Google
Hudson River Trading and Virtu Financial are backing a nationwide competitive programming event with Google Cloud to scout engineering talent for trading and infra roles reported. The sponsorship signals continued on‑prem/high-performance shops investing in pipeline development rather than hiring purely through markets.
HRT announced) a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud on July 18, 2024 that specifically referenced access to high-performance GPUs, Spot/Preemptible VMs and Google’s Dynamic Workload Scheduler for large-scale research workloads. Virtu ran an online education-focused hackathon called “VirtuHack” with submissions open Sept 8–25, 2025, according to its Devpost event page. virtu-hack.devpost.com Winners for VirtuHack were scheduled for announcement on Oct 10, 2025 per the event updates. virtu-hack.devpost.com HRT shows up on collegiate competitive‑programming sponsorship lists—Stanford ACM’s ProCo event lists Hudson River Trading as a sponsor. stanfordacm.org The ICPC North America Championship attracts a concentrated pool (1,189 teams and roughly 3,529 contestants) between March 19–23, 2026, providing a single‑event pipeline for recruiters. cecs.ucf.edu Virtu publicly runs repeat internship and early‑talent programs; the firm launched its sixth annual Women’s Winternship on Jan. 9, 2024 to recruit and train candidates. ir.virtu.com Virtu’s careers pages and internship listings further advertise multi‑week summer and technical internship rotations that feed full‑time engineering hires. virtu.com Google Cloud has pursued the same playbook across the quant sector—case studies and press posts show Citadel Securities moving research workloads to GCP (published April 9, 2024) and Two Sigma publicly demonstrating cloud research platforms with Google Cloud tooling. cloud.google.com ICPC and university sponsorship documents quantify the opportunity for employers—organizers estimate roughly $1 million per year is needed to run NAC/NAPC programs and offer sponsor access to top competitors and training camps. cecs.ucf.edu
