Investment Engineer

About Bridgewater 

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. 

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. 

Our Culture 

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy. In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage. Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought – this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it’s how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships – the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.  

About the Team 

Bridgewater has a long history as an asset manager in Asia. It started when our founder, Ray Dalio, first visited China in 1984, and we have been managing money for sophisticated institutional investors in the Asia-Pacific region ever since our first Chinese client invested in 1993. Trading Asian markets have always been a core part of our global macro investment strategies, and several Asian economies feature prominently in the research we have published on debt cycles and the changing world order. We opened our first foreign office in China, and in 2018 we launched our first China-focused investment strategy, which has since grown to become the largest wholly foreign-owned private fund in China.  

The goal of the Asia Solutions team within our Total Portfolio Strategies department is to continue our growth journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. Total Portfolio Strategies (TPS) aspires to shape our industry by conceiving and delivering innovative investment strategies that address our clients’ biggest goals and challenges. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region.  

About Your Role: 

Our Investment Engineers are an integral part of our investment process. On a day-to-day basis, your mission is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work and codify this understanding. You will spend your time designing and building the algorithms which are used to generate Bridgewater’s views on markets, translate those views into portfolios, and trade those portfolios. Every piece of investment logic is owned by the Investment Engineers who are 1) experts in their investment domain and can hold the whole model of the investment system in their head, and 2) designers that build systems which beautifully express and run our investment logic that evolves with our investment understanding. Given the flat structure of the team, Investment Engineers can get exposure to the investment thinking of some of the most senior investors at the firm. 

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You will drive the following responsibilities: 

As an Investment Engineer on our team, you’ll spend your time 

• Owning one of our large investment systems over the next couple of years. With that, you will work on a project with real systems impact from day one and take ownership of a sub system within your first few months.  
• Exploring new datasets that feed into our research and development agenda. 
• Driving investment insights, and developing systematic trading & investment strategies based on those insights. 
• Driving data engineering projects for consumption in our systematic investment processes. 
• Building visualizations and diagnostics of our data universe to assist in monitoring fundamentals and market action. 
• Running and operating systems that you have engineered to trade markets. 

You will be a click for the role if you have:  

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in asset management, investment banking, independent or sell-side equity research, equity data, or data science; or in quantitative risk or equities trading. 
• Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills (i.e. highly dimensional time-series and cross-sectional datasets). 
• Scripting/functional programming knowledge – primarily R or Python, Scala a plus. 
• Passion and knack for building data models and algorithmic systems that solve complex investment problems. 
• Deep interest in markets, finance, and investing. 
• Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills. 
• Intellectual curiosity and detail-orientation. 
• A connection to Asia markets. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

Physical Requirements: 

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement alternating between our NYC and Westport campuses. 

Compensation: 

The wage range for this role is $300,000 - $450,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 50% - 60% of this wage range.  

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer