Bridgewater Associates · 10 hours ago
Research Associate, Quantitative Developer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
1+ years expBridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm focused on delivering unique insights for global institutional investors. The Quantitative Developer role involves working closely with portfolio managers to translate research ideas into production-ready systems and enhancing the investment strategies through data and AI technologies.
FinanceVenture CapitalFinancial ServicesImpact Investing
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
Qualification
Required
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
Comfort and desire to work across research and engineering contexts rather than a narrowly scoped infra role
Preferred
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
Benefits
Competitive suite of benefits
Discretionary target bonus
Immigration sponsorship
Company
Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater manages approximately $120 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$22M2016-05-25Grant· $22M
Leadership Team
Hans Anderson
Director Of Product Design
Karen Karniol-Tambour
Co-Chief Investment Officer
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