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. This 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 Your Role 

• You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients.  
• You will oversee a set of processes that ingests updated market data along with our view from our research department, applies portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios. 
• You will oversee our logic for choosing which instruments we want to hold and then deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department. 
• You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group of people, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers.  
• You will partner with technologists and researchers to constantly improve our processes, focusing on increasing efficiency or the implementation of new logic or portfolios. 

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Executing and overseeing the systematized logic we use to generate client portfolios and trades every day 
• Understanding and effectively communicating the state of those portfolios to our senior investment teams and CIOs 
• Working with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems or overhaul old ones 
• Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own 
• Evolving the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community  

 You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Are analytical, highly logical, and structured 
• Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets 
• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems 
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution 
• 1+ years of relevant work experience at an investment bank or asset management firm 
• Experience with portfolio construction and risk management techniques 

Physical Requirements 

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Singapore office. 

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. 

In this role, you will grow with us by: 

• Undergoing a training program of structured classes and on-the-job apprenticeship. 
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes. 
• Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience. 
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience. 

Compensation Band: 

• The wage range for this role is 183,700 SGD - 288,600 SGD base salary with an additional discretionary target bonus.  

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 including: 

• Health insurance, including vision and dental coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for by Bridgewater 
• Global telemedicine access (24/7 access to licensed doctors) 
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave  
• An engaged and active community that includes company events and extracurricular interest groups 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal, state, and local 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 not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

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 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 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. This 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 Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department. The goal of Asia Strategies is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. 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  

We are seeking a Quantitative Developer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. This is a hands-on, embedded role, working directly with the portfolio manager and researchers in a tight-knit, fast-paced environment. You will have consistent exposure to senior investment leadership and play a central role in translating research ideas into robust, production-ready, systems.

Unlike high-frequency or execution-driven QD roles, this position emphasizes (1) research enablement (2) model implementation (3) data pipelines (4) portfolio construction (5) oversight. You will sit at the intersection of research, engineering, and portfolio management, with direct ownership over the tools and systems that drive investment decisions. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Research Enablement & Implementation  

• Partner closely with the PM and researchers to translate alpha ideas into scalable, production-quality models. 

• Maintain and evolve our research & production environments – from signal development to portfolio construction & risk management. 

• Incorporate AI/Machine Learning technologies into the team’s research and investment process. 

• Data & Infrastructure 

• Efficiently engineer and assess datasets for alpha potential. Work across large, unstructured, and alternative datasets relevant to APAC markets.  

• Ensure data quality, reproducibility, and performance across research and live environments 

• Portfolio Construction & Analytics 

• Develop tools to monitor portfolio exposures, risk, performance attribution, and signal behavior. 

• Partner with the PM on discretionary overlays, stress testing, and scenario analysis. 

• Work across trade execution and portfolio implementation teams to manage our portfolios.  

• Collaboration 

• Work across our data engineers, developers, and researchers to evolve our shared research platform and data ecosystem. 

• Contribute to improving productivity, tooling, and research velocity within the pod. 

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

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have a passion for financial markets and systematic investing. 

• Have a drive to build the backbone that directly impacts P&L. 

• Have a drive to understand the fundamental cause and effect linkages that drive markets, companies, and economies and translate that into a systematic process. 

• Are intellectually curious and creative 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1–4 years of experience in a quantitative development, research engineering, or hybrid QD/QR role at a hedge fund, asset manager, or bank. Experience in systematic equities or macro is a plus. 

• Strong programming skills in Python (experience writing production-quality, maintainable code). 

• Willingness to expand your toolkit to adapt to our Scala driven production stack.  

• Experience designing, documenting, and scaling high-performance systems. 

• Strong desire to work with new development assistant technologies to drive productivity.  

• Experience working with databases and data platforms (SQL; Snowflake or similar) 

• Solid foundation in statistics and applied mathematics, particularly time-series and cross-sectional analysis. Familiarity with factor models, signal pipelines, and portfolio optimization frameworks 

• Experience supporting or implementing systematic investment strategies 

• Experience with trading in Asian markets is preferred including (but not limited to) familiarity with Asia market's distinctive characteristics such as stamp cost, financing, and no short constraints.  

• Comfort and desire to work across research and engineering contexts rather than a narrowly scoped infra role 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus or in our Singapore office. 

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

Compensation 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is SGD 252,700-SGD 315,800. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

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  

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. This 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 Your Role 

Client Investment Research Analysts play a vital role in service of Bridgewater’s overall client service strategy across our front office departments – the Alpha Engine, Total Portfolio Strategies, and Client Service. Analysts act as the primary support to Bridgewater’s Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by Bridgewater’s co-CIOs to partner directly with our clients on their most important Research priorities. Day-to-day work includes collaborating with Strategists, Client Advisors, asset class teams, and our CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insights that informs out clients’ thinking. From their unique position at the heart of Bridgewater’s client-focused research activity, these individuals have an aerial view into our ever-evolving perspectives on world markets, high-impact company-wide projects and our investment philosophy and processes.  

Bridgewater’s market-driven approach to client service requires our Client Investment Research Analysts to continually expand their understanding and knowledge of the markets. Through formal training and informal on-the-job instruction, Client Investment Research Analysts become well-versed in our investment approach, process and different strategies, our book of business, and our production systems.  

Client Investment Research Analysts are embedded across several departments in the Front Office, helping drive critical projects and engagements in our Alpha Engine, Total Portfolio Strategies, and Client Service functions. Roles across departments are focused in the following areas:  

• Within the Alpha Engine, Client Investment Research Analysts work on projects that cover a range of areas, including but not limited to our outlook on markets, our thinking on portfolio construction, and Bridgewater’s investment process and flagship Pure Alpha strategy. 

• Total Portfolio Strategies: Client Investment Research Analysts within Total Portfolio Solutions partner directly with our Pillar Heads and Strategists, a small group of senior investors appointed by Bridgewater’s co-CIOs to partner directly with our clients on their most important Research priorities. Day-to-day work includes collaborating with Pillar Heads, Strategists, Client Advisors, research teams, and our CIOs to define approaches on how to handle different client-focused research projects and execute on them through research, analysis, and project management, culminating in novel investment insights that informs out clients’ thinking.  
• Client Service: The Client Investment Research Analysts in CS act as Bridgewater’s in-house investment advisory arm partnering with Client Advisors to provide clients with tailored insights and advice to address their day-to-day questions about Bridgewater’s strategies, performance, and portfolio positions. 

Successful Client Investment Research Analysts will: 

• Develop a holistic understanding of portfolios and portfolio management principles 
• Understand the depth and breadth of Bridgewater’s market knowledge as well as its pioneering work in institutional asset management and alpha and beta separation 
• Contribute to Bridgewater’s world-class client service strategy through creative thinking about how to generate insights and convey key messages to our clients about our investment philosophy, strategies, performance and outlook in the markets. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:    

• Understand Bridgewater’s book of business, related commercial strategy and our investment thinking 
• Strategize with Client Advisors, other Research teams and investment professionals (at times including CIOs and other Sr. Researchers) and help develop best approach to handle client requests, enable high quality client engagements 
• Apply analytical skills, market knowledge, and an understanding of Bridgewater’s investment methodology to create insights to help shape clients’ investment thinking or deliver client-ready portfolio position and performance reports to allow our Client Advisors, Investment Strategists and Chief Investment Officers to tell the Bridgewater investment story in a rich and accurate way 
• Work creatively with existing methodologies and tools to identify and solve problems in how we serve clients by simultaneously contributing to the creation of new tools, models, and or “machines” to automate and streamline our processes 

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

Position Requirements 

The Client Investment Research Analyst role is a great opportunity to transition into Bridgewater. While the position does not require deep experience in asset management, preferred candidates will have prior experience within a related and similarly fast-paced professional services environment. We are looking for intellectually curious, energetic individuals who can learn quickly and are aggressive problem-solvers. Candidates should meet the following criteria. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a strong academic and extracurricular track record 
• Interest for and understanding of markets and investing 
• Ability to solve complex problems through analysis 
• Aptitude for creative quantitative work involving financial and economic data 

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. 

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

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

You will grow with us by: 

• Participating in formal and informal on the job training 
• Developing a holistic understanding of portfolios and portfolio management principles 
• Becoming well-versed in our investment approach, process, strategies and book of business 

Compensation Band
The wage range for this role is $130,000 - $260,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range. 

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 

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 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 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. This 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 Investment Implementation Department 

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems.

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles:

• Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.
• Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.    
• Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.  
• Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market.

About Your Role 

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Data Strategy and Acquisition function within our Investment Implementation group. Operating at the front edge of our Investment Data practice, you will assist, learn, and contribute to the evolution of our Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, Contract Management, and Service Management administration disciplines. You will engage with investors, associates, engineers, and external vendors and providers to drive strong outside-in and inside-out knowledge, quality management, and business process alignment. 

You will be a central part of our Research and Data Strategy function and immersed in the middle of our flows, investment questions, supplier challenges, matching ideation, internal marketing/advocacy, and service strategy. You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessments to a diverse group of stakeholders, including investment professionals, vendors and service providers, and Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance. You will partner across the firm and with vendors, collaborating with hundreds of individuals over the course of a year. 

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Activating, advocating, executing, and assisting in the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand we use to provide and maintain inbound fuel and internal investment asks of the practice.  
• Dynamically understanding the world of offerings, known and unknown to Bridgewater, creating potential matches, indications of interest, and bringing structure from the external world into Bridgewater.  
• Understanding and effectively communicating the state of specific pieces and slices of the sourcing portfolio, including market making and matching, as well as knowledge bases of passes, no bids, and deferred opportunities.  
• Assisting in the building, maintenance, and rapid sorting of inbound and run-state assets within the sourcing portfolio.  
• Creating and assisting in initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own or are part of.  
• Continuously evaluating and enhancing processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content to investment professionals at scale.  
• Advocating with existing and potential vendors to improve the quality of their pitches. 

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

You will be a fit for the role if you: 

• Are curious, practical, analytical, and willing to engage broadly with a highly diverse set of people both inside and outside of Bridgewater.  
• Can manage a high volume of work across diverse functions and competing priorities, while effectively communicating and executing.  
• Are deeply interested in understanding our Investment Data practice and its lifecycle management.  
• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems.  
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do.  
• Are willing to operate at all levels of the stack, from basic task execution to complex, multi-month and multi-modal efforts.   

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution 
• 3-7 years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor/service provider or asset management firm 
• Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Service Management, or Supplier Knowledge Management 
• Experience with Capital Markets market data is a strong plus 

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Physical Requirements:

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus. 

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

You will grow with us by: 

• Undergoing a rigorous training program that includes structured engagement with the external world, on-the-job apprenticeship, and working with highly experienced colleagues.  
• Actively contributing to the growth and evolution of the broader overall design.  
• Having your voice and perspective heard, and over time representing the firm in important vendor, counterparty, and provider management discussions.  
• Pursuing opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater based on your strengths, areas for development, and experience.

Compensation:

• The wage range for this role is $170,000 - $225,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.

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 not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.    

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

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 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 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. This 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 Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department. The goal of Asia Strategies is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. 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  

We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. You will work alongside the PM in a tight knit and fast paced environment with consistent exposure to a Bridgewater CIO. Your primary focus will be on alpha research with responsibilities along all aspects of the process from idea generation to data discovery, research and analysis, testing, portfolio optimization, and implementation. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Research & Development - Drive a systematic research process end to end including idea generation, data modeling, research/analysis, implementation, and industrialization. 

• Oversight & Monitoring – Continuously evolve our systematic oversight processes to understand drivers of risk, return, and views. Generate ideas to improve existing signals. Contribute ideas for discretionary trades and overlays to the portfolio. 

• Discovery – Identify and assess new datasets to identify their merit in our investment process. Follow and look to implement the latest developments in academic research. Experiment with new technologies to improve both our investment process and research and development environment. 

• Collaboration – Work across our data engineers, developers, and researchers to evolve our research platform and data ecosystem. Engage with the broader Asia strategies team to share observations and generate ideas. 

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

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have a passion for financial markets 

• Have a drive to understand the fundamental cause and effect linkages that drive markets, companies, and economies. 

• Are intellectually curious and creative 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1-4 years of work experience in quantitative research at a hedge fund, asset manager, or bank. Experience in systematic equities a plus. 

• Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills (both time series and cross-sectional analysis) 

• Demonstrated proficiency in statistical languages (Python or R) and experience with database programming languages and environments (SQL and Snowflake) 

• Willingness to expand your toolkit to adapt to our Scala driven production stack.   

• Strong desire to work with new development assistant technologies to drive productivity.   

• Experience working with large, diverse, and alternative datasets 

• Experience working with factor models (both externally sourced and internally developed) 

• Experience with trading in Asian markets is preferred including (but not limited to) familiarity with Asia market's distinctive characteristics such as stamp cost, financing, and no short constraints. 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus or in our Singapore office. 

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. 

Compensation 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $250,000-$300,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.  

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   

For 50 years, Bridgewater has pursued one idea: the world can be understood. Markets and economies follow cause-and-effect relationships—and by understanding them, we think we can beat the markets and generate true uncorrelated returns ("alpha") at significant scale. Our clients include some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors who turn to us to use our unique insights to solve their biggest problems. 

Generating alpha at scale is an exceptionally difficult task. It requires predicting the future and doing so better than the millions of other extremely smart, highly motivated people who are trying to do the same. Our investment strategies seek to understand and navigate macroeconomic shifts that drive the world’s most liquid markets (bonds, currencies, equities, commodities, credit). These shifts have a very limited sample size (some of them haven’t yet happened in our lifetimes). 

Our approach is to start by digging deep to develop a fundamental cause-effect understanding of the economic and financial relationships that drive markets. We represent this understanding in a model of the world that we call our System—code and algorithms that generate views automatically, by ingesting vast amounts of significantly cleaned data and reflecting the relationships we’ve learned over decades of intense study and experience. Being systematic allows us to stress-test the quality of our ideas through time, and also helps ensure that at any given point, our positions reflect everything we’ve ever learned, so that our people can spend all their time focused on compounding on our understanding at a faster rate than markets are learning. 

This approach requires us to be at the forefront of human-machine collaboration. Since 2012, Bridgewater has aggressively pursued the vision of the artificial investor that can do everything a human can, with computers not just representing the insights but also generating the insights themselves. In 2023, we introduced AIA (Artificial Investment Associate), our fully machine-powered investing strategy. Our learnings in building AIA are now transforming even our human investors’ jobs, allowing us to rapidly discover and systemize new insights, and accelerating our transformation toward a fully integrated system that combines the best of human and machine intelligence. 

Every day we obsessively interrogate our systems against our independent investor insights, and work to evolve our systems to reflect how the world is changing. Beating the markets with this approach requires intense collaboration between brilliant people who constantly push themselves and each other to improve every week, to arrive at the best ideas without ego or politics. We rapidly elevate the best thinkers to greater responsibility. 

We are looking to hire great talent to work in the Alpha Engine as a Management Coordinator.  

About the Role 

The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support a subset of BW’s Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring services provided are achieving the goal of the senior leader’s world running smoothly at every level. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities while being an excellent facilitator, communicator, and proactive partner. 

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Work with BW Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams to ensure long term goals translate to the day-to-day and are executed effectively 

• Own all operational support functions to enable the team’s business goals – such as onboarding / offboarding talent, team specific operational policies, talent assessment processes, etc.  

• Manage challenging and fast-moving calendars, partnering with support teams across the department and company 

• Track and coordinate priorities to ensure deliverables are completed in a timely manner 
• Run and improve smaller scale operational processes within the team  

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

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively 

• Derive satisfaction from making others’ worlds run smoothly 

• Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well 

• Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives 

• Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed 

• Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done. 

• Have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives 

• Can communicate and respond in a timely manner 

• Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks 

• Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating 
• Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience in administrative support, business operations, project management, or similar type of role 

• Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders through excellent written and verbal communication 

• Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment 

• Ability to prioritize and work cross functionally when managing several concurrent threads. 

• Ability to work with and manage various stakeholders in service of a common goal. 

• Experience running and improving operational processes 
• Ability to work flexible hours (e.g. some evenings) as required to match the needs of the team(s) you support 

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.  

Physical Requirements 

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus. 

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. 

Compensation Band: 

• The expected annual total salary for this position is $100,000-$125,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

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 not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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 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 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. This 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 Implementation Department 

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems. 

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles: 

• Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs. 
• Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.   
• Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.   
• Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market.  

About the Role 

The Program Manager will partner with the Department Head of Investment Implementation, Director of Investment System Programs, and Head of Data and Signals to shape and operationalize multi-year initiatives, identify and engage key stakeholders, and build clear paths of influence. The person in this role will collaborate with subject matter experts who require development in strategy and execution, as well as play a key role in translating the strategy into action. This includes guiding department level priorities, partnering with Senior Investors to manage teams, delivering critical programs, metrics, engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders, and directly managing one or more strategic initiatives or projects. This role offers high visibility with senior leadership and is expected to influence departmental direction and companywide priorities. 

The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic, results-oriented environment, demonstrate proactive ownership, and possess the courage to challenge the status quo in service of the best outcome. The candidate should be excited by grabbing ambiguity and shaping strategy, as well as rolling up their sleeves and getting the work done. Performance in this role will be evaluated based on strategic impact, execution quality, and ability to elevate the thinking and performance of the broader team.   

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partner with the Director of Investment System Programs and Senior Department Leaders to design the structure, cadence, and operating model for multi-year strategic plans and roadmaps. The scope of this work will begin with a focus on Data Strategy and evolve over time and extend beyond any single functional area.   
• Lead the annual planning synthesis for the Data and Signals pillar, working across stakeholders to translate strategy into clear priorities, timelines, and accountability.   
• Partner with Senior Investors to lead team oversight and management, driving team governance, operating model development, organizational design, and long-term strategic planning. 
• Facilitate regular engagement with department leadership and stakeholders, ensuring alignment, transparency, and timely updates across project portfolios.   
• Develop and refine processes, tools and metrics to drive effective program and project management across the department.  
• Establish and enforce accountability frameworks, including clear metrics, ownership, and mechanisms for diagnosing and resolving challenges.   
• Proactively manage execution risks, identifying and addressing roadblocks, and adjusting direction based on new data and evolving priorities.   
• Drive cross-functional execution, providing structure, coordination, and project leadership in close partnership with the Department Head and senior team.   
• Operate with independence and sound judgment, resolving problems quickly and effectively while escalating when needed.   
• Collaborate with adjacent teams across the firm to support cross-functional initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.   

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years of experience in Project/Program Management, preferably with financial services or strategy consulting.  
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited undergraduate institution. 
• Proven track record of delivering measurable outcomes and long-term impact across complex programs – experience should span both strategic thinking and proven delivery / implementation of ideas.  
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to synthesize and convey complex ideas clearly and effectively both in writing and in high-stakes meetings with senior leadership.  
• Experience leading large, multi-phased initiatives, with strong planning, prioritization, and executions skills in dynamic environments. 
• Ability to operate autonomously, make decisions under pressure, and pivot quickly when priorities shift or new data emerges.  
• Strong critical thinking and analytical capabilities, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and the discipline to drive toward clarity and resolution.   
• Collaborative leadership skills, with the ability to drive execution across multiple initiatives while managing organizational impact and a wide array of stakeholders.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with project management tools or data visualization platforms is a plus.   
• While not required, experience in investment operations or familiarity with Bridgewater’s investment principles (e.g., alpha, beta, portfolio construction) is advantageous.    

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Acting as a primary partner to our department leaders. 
• Sharpening your ability to solve tough problems and becoming more effective as you learn about your own strengths and weaknesses. 
• Taking on larger and more complex projects as you learn and master the day-to-day responsibilities of your job, having more impact through time. 
• Gaining insight into the full scope of Implementation and the critical role the department plays in the Investment Pipeline 
• Receiving exposure to the investment strategy and relationships that are at the heart of what we do. 

Physical Requirements   

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus.   

Compensation Band 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$200,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

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 not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.   

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer  

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 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 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. This 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 Team 

The goal of the Asia Solutions team is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. 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. 

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 has 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. 

About Your Role  

As a Research Associate on the Asia Solutions team, you’re on a mission to understand the fundamental drivers of markets and turn that understanding into systematic trading strategies and investment advice for our clients. You’ll help expand our understanding of how economies work and distill that understanding into systematic trading strategies. You’ll be wrestling with questions like: How do economic actors behave and what drives their actions? and How can we systematically monitor and predict their actions?  

Through your focus on China’s onshore equities, you’ll be expected to cultivate a high level of expertise in Asian markets, enriching the team’s knowledge of industry and company fundamentals, staying attuned to regulatory changes, and independently formulating investment ideas within the region. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have deep interest and experience in conducting systematic fundamental research focused on Chinese equities and translating key learnings into systematic investment ideas 
• Can produce in-depth research coverage on publicly traded companies within China and Hong Kong, and develop logical, comprehensive frameworks for the on-going assessment of industry and company fundamentals 
• Are excited to help develop alpha strategies within a multi-asset macro portfolio, conducting systematic analyses on fast-moving market actions to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns 
• Can provide perceptions on what is going on in the world, investigate them to discover timeless & universal linkages, and connect those to portfolio investment impact 
• Are excited about being on a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team with high ambitions for impact across strategies 
• Can take abstract concepts and turn them into concrete solutions that solve challenging problems in markets and economies 
• Thrive in a deeply intellectual environment where truthful and transparent communication ensure that the best ideas win out 
• Independently drive initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of our systems 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record 
• 2+ years of experience in a relevant field (markets / investing, quantitative analysis, etc) 
• Fluency in Mandarin 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills; experience working with and analyzing large datasets 
• Strong familiarity with Chinese accounting standards (CAS) and experience in using WIND 
• High integrity and Bridgewater culture fit 

Preferred Requirements 

A high degree of proficiency with Python & Excel; Scala nice to have 

Physical Requirements  

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.  

Compensation 

The expected annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$300,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

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

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 

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 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 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. This 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 Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department, whose goal is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in Asia. 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  

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. This is a hands-on, embedded role working directly with the portfolio manager, quantitative researchers, and quantitative developers in a fast-paced investment environment.

Unlike centralized data platform roles, this position is deeply integrated with the investment process. You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle that powers alpha research, portfolio construction, and live trading – from sourcing and ingestion to profiling, validation, transformation, and delivery into research and production systems. You will collaborate with our quantitative researchers, developers and portfolio managers and have direct impact on the data and systems that drive investment decisions. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Identify and assess new datasets to identify their merit in our investment process.  

• Build and maintain a catalog of datasets/vendors by attending data conferences, reading whitepapers, and taking introductory calls.  

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines supporting systematic macro and long/short equity strategies. 

• Partner closely with researchers and quantitative developers to ensure data is research-ready, well-documented, and reproducible across simulation and live environments. 

• Profile and interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, stability over time, and structural breaks. 

• Implement data quality checks, anomaly detection, and monitoring to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of production datasets. 

• Design and maintain our data ontology and schemas 

• Work across a variety of datasets including traditional datasets (fundamentals, market data, security master, etc.) to large alternative datasets.  

• Work with shared data engineering and platform teams to evolve the broader data ecosystem while maintaining pod-level ownership and agility. 

• Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and system reliability 

• Work with the data vendors on data quality and new features that will benefit our investment process. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Care deeply about building high-quality data that drives decision-making and directly impacts outcomes. 

• Are motivated by owning critical datasets and pipelines end-to-end, and take pride in correctness, reliability, and durability. 

• Enjoy working in real-world data environments where inputs are messy, definitions evolve, and good judgment matters. 

• Are intellectually curious and enjoy interrogating data — understanding its structure, limitations, and behavior, not just moving it from point A to point B. 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

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

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role, either: embedded with systematic investment teams (hedge fund, asset manager, bank), or in a high-scale, data-intensive technology environment (e.g., consumer, payments, or platform companies). 

• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience building production-quality, maintainable data pipelines. 

• Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses). 

• Familiarity with distributed processing and workflow orchestration (e.g., Spark, Airflow, or equivalents). 

• Proven ability to reason about data correctness, lineage, versioning, and reproducibility in environments where data errors have material downstream impact. 

• Comfort using lightweight statistical analysis and data science techniques to assess data quality, coverage, and suitability for research use. 

• Demonstrated experience working with high-dimensional, messy, and evolving datasets, including financial market and reference data (e.g., prices, fundamentals, macro, corporate actions), or large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-driven data with complex schemas and quality challenges. 

• Experience working with datasets spanning multiple geographies, where data sources, standards, and availability vary materially by region. Familiarity with APAC data sets & providers a plus. 

• Experience navigating APAC data realities, including jurisdiction-specific macro definitions, country-specific corporate structures, and uneven disclosure and historical coverage.  

• Familiarity with differences between global and local data sources, including gaps between English-language and local-language 

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week in our Singapore office. 

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

Compensation Band 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is SGD 189,500-SGD 252,700. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

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   

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 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 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. This 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 Investment Implementation Department  

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems.  

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles:  

• Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.  
• Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.    
• Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.    
• Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market 

About the Team 

As part of the research team, the Signal Implementation group is responsible for owning and deeply understanding both the data that flows from the outside world and the logic applied to it within Bridgewater’s systematic trading systems. 

 About Your Role 

As a Data Associate, you will help us achieve our mission by owning and deeply understanding the data and logic used to build Bridgewater’s systematic trading systems. This means understanding the content itself, the process by which the content is updated, validated, and evolved and how this content fits into Bridgewater’s understanding of the world. 

In this role, you will be expected to understand both the current data ecosystem and the needs of investment professionals, with a long-term vision for how our investment data ecosystem should scale and adapt over time. You will take ownership of key data workflows, ensuring high standards for investment data quality and consistency across the firm. This is a fast paced, critical function that directly impacts portfolio construction and research alpha. 

We are looking for someone who combines a rigorous analytical mindset with a passion for data, content integrity, and system improvement. The ideal candidate has several years of experience working with data systems. 

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

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Understanding sets of investment “data concepts” - how outside data is used at Bridgewater from both a conceptual investment and technical construction perspective (e.g., pricing, macroeconomic, fundamentals, alternative data). 
• Validating the accuracy of those data concepts - providing domain expertise in content understanding, especially around market, security master, and time-series data. 
• Accepting and engaging with new data as our systematic investment engine incorporates it - refining and maintaining high standards for data engineering and investment data integrity. 
• Continuously evolving these data concepts over time by improving the logic or technical definitions, contributing directly to improving Bridgewater’s investment logic. 
• Working with Bridgewater’s partners in the content supply chain (analytics, engineering, and technology) to address data quality, architectural or logic issues. 
• Collaborating with vendors, engineers, and data consumers to streamline workflows and improve data time-to-insight.
• Operate workflows that enrich and augment unstructured data assets.
• Execute and evaluate data creation for benchmarking of LLM assets and AI tools.

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Are analytical, highly logical, and structured in your thinking 
• Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets 
• Are passionate about data 
• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems 
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do 
• Enjoy learning about new data tools and programming languages 

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

Position Requirements  

To succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution. 
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in data. 
• Strong working knowledge of financial data (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, alternative data vendors). 
• Experience working with time-series data and security master data. 
• Familiarity with data modeling, data pipelines, and cloud-based data solutions (e.g., Snowflake, AWS). 
• Proficient in at least one programming language. 
• Strong analytical skills, a systems-oriented mindset, and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. 

Physical Requirements  

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus. 

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

Compensation Band  

The expected annual base salary for this position is $120,000-$150,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.   

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 not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer