Jobs at Bridgewater Associates

Executes systematic trades across global markets, evaluates market microstructure and transaction costs, and improves proprietary trading strategies and systems. Collaborates with researchers, technologists, analytics teams, liquidity providers, and vendors to enhance execution quality, reliability, and efficiency. The role includes extensive training, market interaction, process automation, and occasional engineering and analysis work. It is fully onsite in Westport, Connecticut, with nontraditional shifts covering Asian, European, or New York market hours.

Run and review biweekly payroll, resolve complex payroll and withholding issues, support compensation programs, manage multistate tax compliance, and answer employee pay questions. Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to improve payroll processes, controls, documentation, technology, and operating models. The role also serves as a continuity partner to the Payroll Director and supports audits, system enhancements, and transformation initiatives.

Manages accounting and statutory financial reporting for foreign subsidiaries, including annual audits, external auditor coordination, reporting package review, general ledger loading, and issue resolution. Supports technical accounting analyses, policy development, new accounting standard implementation, and domestic financial reporting. Uses AI and process improvements to enhance efficiency and controls while collaborating with finance stakeholders, auditors, and service providers.

Supports Bridgewater’s middle and back-office operations by reviewing outsourced provider deliverables, producing client, regulatory, risk, control, and management reports, coordinating with internal teams, troubleshooting issues, and improving processes and controls. The role also contributes to operational initiatives, training, testing, and certification while supporting products, markets, investor requirements, and strategic partnerships.

Finance Associate joining Bridgewater’s early-career program to build financial models, support planning and budgeting, reporting, capital planning, valuation, and liquidity analysis. The role partners with business leaders, prepares recommendations and executive materials, and uses AI and automation to improve Finance processes. Candidates should demonstrate analytical ability, leadership, communication skills, finance-related academic interest, Excel proficiency, and experience using AI tools.

Client Investment Research Analysts support Bridgewater's investment strategies by collaborating with teams to analyze markets, develop insights, and manage research projects, contributing to client service strategies and informing investment decisions.

Design and maintain scalable test automation platforms for high-performance, mission-critical systems. Build diagnostic and validation tools, automate business logic and performance testing, support AI-driven testing workflows, integrate testing into the software development lifecycle, and improve reliability and release velocity. The role also contributes to testing strategy during platform re-architecture and validates financial portfolio and trading systems.

Own and operationalize the Strategist Ecosystem by designing repeatable processes, coordinating functional areas, managing recurring execution cadences, tracking ecosystem health, resolving blockers, and reporting priorities and milestones to leadership. The role requires managing concurrent workstreams, influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority, operating effectively amid ambiguity, and maintaining high-quality communication and execution across teams.

Operates and oversees systematic investment portfolio construction processes, integrating market data, research views, risk controls, and client constraints. Delivers trades to trading teams, partners with technologists and researchers to improve investment systems, and drives initiatives enhancing process quality, reliability, and efficiency. Communicates assessments to investment managers, traders, and developers while developing expertise through structured training and apprenticeship.

Lead and mature the insider threat program through proactive employee-risk monitoring, detection tooling, cross-functional initiatives, policy development, and threat assessment. Partner with business stakeholders, HR, and Legal on awareness and investigations; synthesize signals, escalate risks, mentor peers, brief senior leadership, and guide the long-term security roadmap.

Supports senior investors and their teams by managing calendars, priorities, onboarding and offboarding, operational policies, talent processes, office space, seating, and day-to-day administrative workflows. Coordinates stakeholders, tracks deliverables, improves operational processes, resolves issues, and ensures team goals are executed effectively in a fast-paced environment.

As a Recruiting Operations Associate, facilitate the recruiting process for top talent, ensuring a smooth candidate experience while managing communications and data tracking.

As a Data Associate, you will manage investment data quality and workflows, ensuring accurate data used in systematic trading systems, and collaborate with partners for improvements.

Embed with the Asia Commodities desk to own vendor data feeds, build scalable data pipelines and dashboards, transform market and supply/demand data into analytical constructs, support research-to-production workflows, and collaborate with investors and platform teams to enable systematic commodities strategies and trading decisions.

Investment Associate Interns will research economies and markets, develop investment insights, oversee portfolios, and collaborate with institutional investors, providing hands-on involvement in investment strategies and exposure to market dynamics.