Careers

Due to our exciting and rapid growth, HPR has a new and highly visible role for an Applications Engineer - APAC to help us provide world-class customer service for our clients trading in the US, EMEA, and APAC.

Hybrid role: This position will be supporting APAC working on a rotating schedule with the additional opportunities to advance your experiences in software, hardware, test or product management. 

Tasked with maintaining HPR’s reputation as the industry leader in pre-trade risk solutions, you will be:

• Resolving technically complex problems for some of the largest financial institutions in the world in conjunction with our engineering staff
• Leveraging your strong communication, troubleshooting, and technical skills to interface with customers and find solutions
• Responding to customer inquiries via phone, email and web
• Diagnosing problems and providing workarounds to customers
• Engaging and immersing yourself into the engineering team to expedite problem resolution and deliver the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or similar field
• 2+ years supporting business critical applications
• Ability and initiative to complete tasks and solve problems autonomously
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong Linux systems administrator skills
• Experience with Python and Shell scripting 
• Understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP, switch configuration, routing)

Desired Qualification:

• Familiarity with C programming
• Understanding of FPGAs
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Due to our exciting and rapid growth, HPR has a new and highly visible role for an Applications Engineer - EMEA to help us provide world-class customer service for our clients trading in the US, EMEA, and APAC.

Tasked with maintaining HPR’s reputation as the industry leader in pre-trade risk solutions, you will be:

• Resolving technically complex problems for some of the largest financial institutions in the world in conjunction with our engineering staff
• Leveraging your strong communication, troubleshooting, and technical skills to interface with customers and find solutions
• Responding to customer inquiries via phone, email and web
• Diagnosing problems and providing workarounds to customers
• Engaging and immersing yourself into the engineering team to expedite problem resolution and deliver the highest levels of customer service and satisfaction

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or similar field
• 2+ years supporting business critical applications
• Ability and initiative to complete tasks and solve problems autonomously
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Strong Linux systems administrator skills
• Experience with Python and Shell scripting 
• Understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP, switch configuration, routing)

Desired Qualification:

• Familiarity with C programming
• Understanding of FPGAs
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Want to join an exciting and rapidly growing FinTech company? Hyannis Port Research is seeking an Applications Engineer, Global Lead to help us provide world-class customer service by solving technically complex problems for some of the largest financial institutions in the world.

As an Applications Engineer, Global Lead at HPR, you will:

• Develop technical competence in HPR’s cutting edge product portfolio and be recognized as an expert
• Lead technical campaigns to successful completion
• Work independently as a member of a team and motivate others
• Develop and deliver training/education to customers
• Mentor and lead team members
• Negotiate success criteria with customers for critical technical campaigns
• Complete assignments without specific directions, recognize problems, and implement viable solutions
• Drive best practices and lessons learned from evaluations/benchmarks and customer interactions back to product development and other application engineers
• Participate in customer benchmark and pre-release activities
• Maintain and improve current knowledge through personal education and training
• Stay abreast of upcoming product releases as well as current and future technological trends

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or similar field
• 5+ years supporting business critical applications
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Self-motivated and committed to helping the team succeed
• Ability and initiative to complete tasks and solve problems autonomously
• Strong Linux systems administrator skills
• Experience with Python and Shell scripting
• Understanding of networking technologies and protocols (TCP, switch configuration, routing)                    
• Experience in leading and mentoring Application Engineers, encouraging our culture of continuous learning and collaboration                                              

Desired Qualifications                                                                           

• Familiarity with C and Python programming
• Understanding of FPGAs
• Project management experience
• Experience with Jira/Confluence

Working at HPR means that you will be surrounded by colleagues who are constantly pushing boundaries, thinking two steps ahead of the curve, and meeting the high standards we set for ourselves. When we build, we do so in a design-driven way: we value beauty and elegance on the backend just as much as we value it in our users’ experience.

You will be joining a team of talented engineers; we care deeply about our users and partners, and we judge ourselves on how well we serve them. If you enjoy working with smart people and helping to build a company that cares about quality, you’ve found the right place.

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Due to our global success and exciting growth, HPR is seeking a Director of Hardware Engineering, to expand into new product categories beginning with a single product and expanding thereafter. HPR seeks a talented leader with a strong technology management background to support our rapid growth and product-line expansion.  We seek a passionate leader with a strong understanding of complex system design and architecture who thrives on driving programs from inception to completion. 

The Director of Hardware Engineering will report to senior leadership developing high performance FPGA-based hardware appliances and/or applications for the financial markets. This position requires a steadfast execution mindset, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate in a demanding environment while maintaining a composed, professional demeanor. A high degree of ownership, initiative, drive for excellence, and an aptitude for understanding and simplifying complex, diverse technologies are required to be effective in this role.

As Director of Hardware Engineering at HPR you will:

• Leverage your proven team leadership skills to direct a group of engineers and deliver new products with minimal oversight
• Utilize strong organizational skills to distill complex project deliverables, milestones, and timelines into predictable team output
• Train and mentor engineering team members
• Demonstrate and instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the projects that you are leading within the team
• Leverage a strong technical background from any relevant domain to participate in the design and development of cutting-edge financial technology products
• Guide project phases through the HPR Engineering Process and ensure that Best Practices are adhered to on an ongoing basis

Required Qualifications:

• MS/BS in Computer Engineering, or related
• 3+ years of managing and leading engineering teams
• 5+ years of hands-on high-performance digital logic design in Verilog in any relevant industry (not necessarily financial technology)
• Hands-on experience designing high-performance telecom datapaths
• Experience working with digital logic simulation
• Experience working with digital logic verification
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively within all levels of the organization
• A passion for organizing complex details and logistics planning for project deliverables
• Relentless sense of urgency and accuracy with an execution mindset
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills

 Desired Qualifications:

• Financial market knowledge
• Knowledge of C, Embedded Systems & Networking

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software building systems that perform at levels beyond even medical device and aircraft industry standards. 

We are searching for a forward thinking Engineering Manager to lead the engineers building the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.  

The Engineering Manager will report to senior leadership developing high performance software and hardware appliances and/or applications for the financial markets. This position requires a steadfast execution mindset, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to collaborate in a demanding environment while maintaining a composed, professional demeanor. A high degree of ownership, initiative, drive for excellence, and an aptitude for understanding and simplifying complex, diverse technologies are required to be effective in this role.

As an Engineering Manager at HPR you will:

• Leverage your proven team leadership skills to direct a group of engineers and deliver new products with minimal oversight
• Utilize strong organizational skills to distill complex project deliverables, milestones, and timelines into predictable team output
• Train and mentor engineering team members
• Demonstrate and instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the projects that you are leading within the team
• Leverage a strong technical background from any relevant domain to participate in the design and development of cutting-edge financial technology products
• Guide project phases through the HPR Engineering Process and ensure that Best Practices are adhered to on an ongoing basis

Required Qualifications:

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3+ years of managing and leading engineering teams
• 5+ years of hands-on development in a software engineering role in any relevant industry (not necessarily financial technology)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively within all levels of the organization
• A passion for organizing complex details and logistics planning for project deliverables
• Relentless sense of urgency and accuracy with an execution mindset
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Financial market knowledge
• Knowledge of C, Embedded Systems & Networking

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Due to our global success and exciting growth, HPR is seeking a Front-End Engineer to drive and expand on our recently retooled user interface for our award-winning products.

As a Front-End Engineer at HPR you will:

• Utilize your background in user-driven and front-end development to make changes and add new features to our GUI based on both client requests and internal initiatives
• Conceive, design, and implement complex User Interfaces for our Riskbot® market access platform using a client-minded approach and keeping principles of usability in mind
• As a member of a small team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with customers that are using the products that you develop

Required Qualifications:

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• 0-10 years of relevant work experience within similar environment, or significant academic project/intern experience with strong computer science skills
• Proven love of complex front-end development and the work ethic that comes with it
• A passion and knowledge of usability, user experience, and UI development
• A passion for writing software that is clean, simple, and elegant
• Ability to work with multi-dimensional/cross-functional team in terms of software and hardware stack
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with Java development

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with one or more: React, Node.JS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML or Java Swing

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

HPR is seeking a System Network Engineer to design, build, deploy, automate, and monitor HPR’s global infrastructure. As the first full-time Network Engineer in a rapidly growing, early stage FinTech company, you’ll be collaborating with developers, designers, and programmers who live and breathe innovation. At HPR, we offer the opportunity to work with cutting-edge high-performance technologies, a collaborative work environment and competitive compensation/benefits in an easy-access, professional and fun setting. This is a great,home for well-rounded, talented tech enthusiasts. 

As a System Network Engineer at HPR you will:

• Design, build, deploy, automate, and monitor HPR’s global infrastructure
• Develop cutting-edge networking technology used by the world’s top financial institutions
• Perform packet inspection on financial application aware switches
• Support HPR IT operations
• Collaborate directly with clients and data center operations

Required Qualifications

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• 1-7 years of relevant work experience within similar environment
• Professional skills in Linux, distributed systems, networking, monitoring and automation.
• Experience with complex infrastructure deployments
• A passion and knowledge of High-Performance networking
• Aptitude to be multi-dimensional, acting as both a SysAdmin and Network Engineer
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams using a software and hardware stack
• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with a configuration management tool such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef

Desired Qualifications

• Financial market knowledge
• Cisco Certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCIE SP, Network Programmability)
• Familiarity of C and C++

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room access, team events, free food, and more.

Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software building systems that perform at levels beyond even medical device and aircraft industry standards.

We are searching for a forward thinking Principal Software Engineer to build the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will:

• Utilize your expertise in low-level programming as we advance the state of the art in high performance computing and electronic trading
• Provide the necessary guidance and hands-on delivery of the design, development, and debugging of C applications that run on multi-core Linux systems to process large amounts of high-throughput, low-latency network data
• Be a key contributor to our process and team culture, continually iterating on how we build products, not just on what we build
• Lead and mentor software engineers, encouraging our culture of continuous learning and collaboration
• Collaborate directly with customers that are using the products that you develop

REQUIRED SKILLS 

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3-10 years of relevant work experience
• Strong C programming skills
• Linux application development expertise
• Demonstrated ability to work through complex engineering obstacles and proven success leading engineering teams to efficient and accurate solution to these problems 
• Experience defining test scenarios and test cases to ensure quality of team deliverables
• Passionate about writing software that is clean, simple, and elegant
• Proficiency with concurrency and multi-threaded architectures
• Expertise with socket programming and TCP
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Shell

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with C++ and Java
• Financial market knowledge

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software building systems that perform at levels beyond even medical device and aircraft industry standards.

We are searching for brilliant, forward thinking Software Engineers to build the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.

As a core member of a small team, you will have a visible impact as you push the boundaries of high-performance computing and solve problems that improve and strengthen low-level capital market infrastructure across the globe. You will work in a uniquely collaborative and agile software and hardware development environment, coordinating closely with teammates and regrouping through daily scrums. HPR’s culture is truly one-of-a-kind. We foster a positive climate of teamwork and collaboration. We love what we do and coming to work every day.

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room access, team events, free food, and more.

Basic Qualifications

• 0 - 2 years of relevant work experience; entry-level
• Relevant programming experience in an academic or professional environment
• Previous experience working in a Linux development environment
• Knowledge of low-level programming; C programming skills strongly preferred
• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
• Exposure to concurrency and multi-threaded architectures
• Strong analytical skills as it relates to problem-solving
• Knowledge of embedded technology 
• Passionate about writing clean, simple, and elegant software
• Strong work ethic, self-directed nature, and entrepreneurial attitude
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Education Requirements 

• BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related
• Successful completion of course(s) related to Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Machine Structure & Assembly-Language, and/or Networks & Protocols

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with network socket programming and TCP
• Financial market knowledge

Please note:  HPR currently does not provide H-1B visa sponsorship.

Einstein postulated that humans could not travel at the speed of light. At HPR, our engineers develop platforms that push that limit each and every day as we build cutting-edge, high-performance computing systems that drive performance, reliability, and scalability. HPR engineers thrive at the intersection of hardware and software building systems that perform at levels beyond even medical device and aircraft industry standards.

We are searching for brilliant, forward thinking Software Engineers to build the future of capital markets infrastructure. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, HPR is undergoing exponential growth as we expand our existing product lines and develop the next generation of HPR products, building upon an already highly profitable company.

As a core member of a small team, you will have a visible impact as you push the boundaries of high-performance computing and solve problems that improve and strengthen low-level capital market infrastructure across the globe. You will work in a uniquely collaborative and agile software and hardware development environment, coordinating closely with teammates and regrouping through daily scrums. HPR’s culture is truly one-of-a-kind. We foster a positive climate of teamwork and collaboration. We love what we do and coming to work every day.

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room access, team events, free food, and more.

As a Software Engineer II you will:

• Utilize your expertise in low-level programming as we advance the state of the art in high performance computing and electronic trading
• Provide the necessary guidance and hands-on delivery of the design, development, and debugging of C applications that run on multi-core Linux systems to process large amounts of high-throughput, low-latency network data
• Become a key contributor to our process and team culture, continually iterating on how we build products, not just on what we build
• Collaborate directly with customers that are using the products that you develop

REQUIRED SKILLS 

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related
• 3-7 years of relevant work experience
• Strong C programming skills
• Linux application development expertise
• Demonstrated ability to work through complex engineering obstacles and proven success leading engineering teams to efficient and accurate solution to these problems 
• Experience defining test scenarios and test cases to ensure quality of team deliverables
• Passionate about writing software that is clean, simple, and elegant
• Proficiency with concurrency and multi-threaded architectures
• Expertise with socket programming and TCP
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Shell

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with C++ and Java
• Financial market knowledge

 Please note: HPR currently does not provide employment sponsorship

HPR is seeking Computer Science and Computer Engineering students to join our award-winning FinTech company.

HPR is the leading global provider of cutting-edge capital markets infrastructure, serving the largest financial institutions in the world. Our revolutionary technology inspects electronic trades in the time is takes a beam of light to travel less than 400 feet.

As a Software Engineering Intern at HPR, you will build upon your strong academic background as you help us advance state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and electronic trading. You will design, develop, and debug C applications running on multi-core Linux systems, to process large amounts of high-throughput, low-latency network data.

Education Requirements

• Pursuing a BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related
• Must have and maintain at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, if on a 4.0 scale

Basic Qualifications

•  Relevant programming experience in an internship or academic environment, demonstrating strong engineering skills
•  Successful completion of a course(s) related to Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Machine Structure & Assembly-Language and/or Networks & Protocols course
• Demonstrated ability to read and write C code
• Familiarity with Linux Bash/Shell environment
• Relevant programming experience developing Python or Java applications
• Strong technical skills, with an interest in expanding knowledge of coding languages
• Fundamental knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Capable of working collaboratively in a fast-paced technical environment
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Desire to work with low-level technologies 
• Familiarity with network socket programming and TCP

Our goal is to ensure a robust learning experience, providing you with new friends and mentors, and a foundation to start building a strong professional network. We do not offer any fake “intern projects” at HPR. Our Software Engineering Interns are actively engaged, making meaningful contributions to our team on a daily basis.

HPR is a collaborative organization. As a member of our team, you are in the thick of everything. Walls do not divide teams and you will work side-by-side the most talented developers, designers and programmers in the business.

HPR offers competitive compensation and benefits in a professional and fun setting. At HPR you’ll enjoy generous employee perks including casual dress code, game room and VR room access, team events, free food, and more.