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 on timeless and universal investment principles. 

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for 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 anchored in excellence—meaning constant improvement—and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday—we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving. Because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard—it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. The meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

About the Role 

Investment Engineers (IEs) are integral to our investment process. You will design, build, and continuously evolve the models and systems that: 

• Transform macroeconomic and market understanding into systematic signals and portfolio construction decisions 
• Enable rigorous research, testing, and implementation of trading ideas 
• Power high-quality, scalable data pipelines and diagnostics that support investment decisions and operations 
• Run and monitor live investment systems that trade global markets 

IEs are both investors and system designers: 

• You will develop deep domain expertise, hold the full mental model of the investment system you own, and scrutinize its behavior and performance 
• You will design elegant, evolvable systems that keep pace with changing market conditions and new insights 
• You will collaborate intensively in a culture that values truth-seeking, analytical rigor, and perseverance 

What You’ll Do 

Own and evolve investment systems end-to-end, taking on meaningful subsystem ownership early and scaling to larger systems over time.

• Translate investment theses into testable hypotheses, systematic signals, and portfolio/trading logic 
• Explore and integrate new datasets; build robust data pipelines and features for research and production 
• Develop visualizations and diagnostics to monitor fundamentals, market action, and system health 
• Conduct research on highly dimensional time-series and cross-sectional datasets 
• Partner with senior investors and engineers to shape research agendas, system architecture, and the technology roadmap 

Who You Are 

We hire a range of talent across experience levels and teams. Strong candidates generally bring: 

• Passion and knack for building data models and algorithmic systems that solve complex investment problems 
• Strong analytical and statistical modeling skills; comfort with large-scale, high-dimensional time-series and cross-sectional data 
• Proficiency in scripting/functional programming (R or Python; Scala is a plus) 
• Deep interest in markets, finance, and investing; intellectual curiosity and skepticism grounded in evidence 
• Ability to design and build large-scale, evolvable systems; strong attention to detail and craftsmanship 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; thrive in intensive, collaborative problem-solving 

Specifically for our Asia Solutions Team, we are also interested in candidates with an interest in or prior experience with Asia-Pacific markets. 

Development and Career Path 

• Early ownership: Expect to own subsystems within months and scale to larger systems over your first 2–4 years. 
• Training: Most new full-time hires participate in foundational investor and systemization training. The structure and duration vary by team and experience level; early-career hires typically receive more formalized ramp-up. 
• Mentorship: You will be mentored by experienced Engineers and work directly with investment leaders who own the P&L of their systems. 

Physical Requirements and Location 

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week, primarily at our New York City campus. A subset of teams, including our Asia Solutions team, operates on a hybrid schedule alternating between our New York City and Westport campuses. 

Compensation Band 

The total compensation range across these roles is $225,000–$450,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary is typically 50%–75% of the relevant range, depending on team, level, and experience. 

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. 

The Investment Engineer full time position requires the candidate to be eligible to work in the United States for a minimum of 3 years from the candidate’s start date. If visa sponsorship is required for any part of the three years, the successful candidate must demonstrate continuous, or eligibility to renew, work authorization in the United States for at least three years after the date of hire, without being subject to selection through a lottery process. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer