Investment Engineer

Job Description

Bridgewater Associates is seeking an Investment Engineer to join their investment team in New York City. The Investment Engineer will be responsible for building and evolving Bridgewater's automated investment systems, enabling research and testing of new trading ideas, and setting the vision for the technology roadmap.

The ideal candidate will be relentlessly curious, analytically rigorous, and able to design and build large-scale systems. They should also be a deeply independent and skeptical thinker with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities include:

• Building and continuously evolving models and algorithms
• Enabling thorough research and testing of new trading ideas
• Setting the vision for the technology roadmap
• Scrutinizing outputs and signals, evaluating the performance of existing systems, and improving investment logic

Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 months of professional experience building systems, ideally related to investing
• Passion and knack for building data models and algorithmic systems that solve complex investment problems
• Deep interest in markets, finance, and investing
• Deep interest in technology
• Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
• Desire to work with the best people in a highly entrepreneurial and collaborative environment

Bridgewater Associates offers:

• Opportunities to own investment systems within the first year
• Mentorship from experienced Engineers
• Direct work on an investment team