Warm Intros at Prop Trading Firms
Prop firms like HRT and Point72 rarely post the roles you want, and the people who decide are researchers and engineers, not recruiters. The honest path is a warm intro from someone who already shares your school or a past employer.
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A plain LinkedIn search buries the people who would actually help you.
It ranks by prominence, so the most-followed, most-messaged names sit on top. FindWarmIntros surfaces the coworkers who share your school or a past employer - the people most likely to reply - and hands you a ready-to-send intro.
✍️ Ready-to-send intro“Hi - we both studied at [your school]. I’d love to hear about your path to a company you are targeting before I apply…”
… plus everyone else in your network who can put in a good word.
See who can refer you in - pick a quant & trading target:
Why the front door is closed at prop firms
Firms like Hudson River Trading, Point72, Jane Street, and Citadel Securities hire in tight bursts and often skip public postings for research and core engineering roles. When a posting does appear, it draws thousands of applicants, so an unreferred resume rarely gets read.
The people with real pull are the quants and engineers on the desk. A note from one of them carries your resume past the pile because the firm trusts their judgment on technical fit. Your job is not to apply harder, it is to reach one of those people with a reason they already care about.
How to actually earn the intro
The mistake is asking a stranger for a referral. Instead, give them a 30-second reason to help and a single easy action to take.
- Share the specific thing first. Same PhD advisor, same undergrad, a prior employer you both had, or a paper of theirs you built on. Name it in the first line so they know why you, and not a random applicant, are writing.
- Ask about the work, not the job. Request 20 minutes on how they model market microstructure or scale their execution stack. Curiosity from a peer gets answered; a referral request from a stranger gets ignored.
- Make helping cost 30 seconds. Attach a one-line summary of your background and one link. If they like you, forwarding it internally is trivial, which is exactly how prop firm referrals happen.
- Prove you can do the work. Link a clean repo, a solved competition, or a short writeup on a trading or systems problem. Technical people vouch for evidence, not enthusiasm.
Finding the right person without guessing
The hard part is figuring out which researcher or engineer at a 500-person firm actually overlaps with you, and which overlap is strong enough to open with. Scrolling LinkedIn by hand is slow and you miss the best shared connection.
FindWarmIntros does the finding-and-ranking part for you: point it at a firm like Point72 or Hudson River Trading and it surfaces the real people there who share your school or a past employer, ranks them by how strong the tie is, and drafts a first message that leads with what you have in common. You still send it and build the relationship, but you skip the search.