Portfolio Engineer

Overview

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About 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.

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; own our investment intent; continuously improve; systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes.

About the Team We are an Engineering owned and led organization which strives to balance independence with community support in an environment that is intellectually vibrant and driven to make a mark on the world as a collaborative force. Our core values include honesty and transparency, high performance standards, shaping our environment, autonomy and self-motivation, and a culture that is dynamic and owned by all of us.

As an Investment Engineer on the Portfolio Implementation team, your mission is to understand how to manage money at the size and scale that Bridgewater does. You will design, build and evolve the investment system that manages our several portfolios and investment strategies from Risk Controls through to Trade Generation. The Investment Engineer will be embedded within the Portfolio Implementation Team and gain a key understanding about our portfolio construction logic, process, and systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, build and evolve the investment system that manages our portfolios from risk controls through to trade generation.
• Translate investment goals and understanding into elegant and robust systematic logic.
• Dive deep into the systems to perceive issues in our logic and translate those problems into business solutions.
• Visualize ways to streamline and industrialize our Portfolio Construction through the trade delivery process.
• Own and develop tools to oversee and validate our Portfolio Construction process.
• Understand and enforce the best engineering standards across the Implementation team.

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

• 2+ years of professional experience in a relevant engineering field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong technical abilities; coding experience in Scala, Python, SQL is preferred but not required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to translate technical concepts to different stakeholders.
• Practical and goal oriented so you can quickly interface with the various partners across the firm to perceive and solve problems.
• A desire to use technology and engineering to solve real world business problems.

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

The wage range for this role is $225,000 – $265,000…