Two Sigma Mission, Purpose & Impact

Two Sigma’s mission is supported by technological innovation that helps improve market efficiency and advance its quantitative investment capabilities. Through collaboration across engineering and modeling teams, employees develop sophisticated trading systems that enable faster execution, more precise decision-making and the development of new investment strategies. These advancements demonstrate how technical expertise contributes to meaningful outcomes, allowing employees to see the direct impact of their work on the company’s investment operations and long-term growth.

“Relative to a past scenario where a manual trader would respond in a second, the new setup represents a speed increase of over 1,000,000 times. These speeds allow the marketplace to operate more efficiently than before, and it allows our business to more effectively build up and trade out of positions based on our forecasts and risk appetite. The change required significant investment across multiple engineering and modeling teams. There were risks that using FPGAs would affect agility and that there would be higher operational risk when using FPGAs. Creating foundational FPGA building blocks and investing in automated testing helped us mitigate these risks.

The innovation in the design and the transformation in trading also allows us to build ever more sophisticated predictive models and use their output during execution without slowing down the execution path. We expect this to play a critical role in helping us launch new trading strategies and further scaling our business.”