Engineering Manager, AI Enabled Investment Platforms

Bridgewater Associates•Westport, CT

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineering Manager will play a critical leadership role in the design, build, and evolution of Bridgewater Associates’ AI-Enabled Investment Platforms—a set of tightly integrated platforms through which investment logic, quantitative research, and AI capabilities are expressed, scaled, and operated. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for an experienced technologist who combines strong architectural judgment, modern engineering instincts, and people leadership. You will own multiple core platforms end-to-end, lead high-performing engineering teams, and partner deeply with investors, researchers, and scientists to translate complex ideas into reliable, high-impact systems. Success in this role requires comfort operating in a modern engineering paradigm: shaping system design, leveraging advanced tooling and agentic workflows, providing context and direction to increasingly automated systems, and ensuring teams consistently ship high-quality outcomes—rather than optimizing for individual code output.

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and operating complex production systems
4+ years in a senior technical leadership role (e.g., technical lead, engineering manager, senior technical manager)
Proven experience owning and evolving large-scale platforms, ideally in investment, financial, data, or AI-driven environments
Strong system design and architectural skills across distributed systems, data platforms, and AI-enabled systems
Demonstrated ability to lead teams while remaining deeply engaged in technical decisions
Experience working closely with investors, researchers, or scientists on demanding, high-stakes problems
Strong judgment, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail

Nice To Haves

Experience building platforms that support quantitative research, investment decision-making, or advanced analytics
Hands-on exposure to AI/ML systems, data pipelines, or model-driven platforms in production
Experience operating in high-performance, intellectually demanding environments
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern development practices

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, design, and ongoing evolution of a portfolio of AI-Enabled Investment Platforms, ensuring they scale with Bridgewater’s investment and research ambitions
Design and build systems using modern development approaches, including advanced tooling, automation, orchestration, and AI-assisted workflows
Make and steward critical architectural decisions across platforms, balancing speed, correctness, resilience, and long-term adaptability
Drive platform modernization, performance improvements, and disciplined reduction of technical debt across the platform ecosystem
Partner closely with investors, researchers, and scientists to deeply understand workflows and express them in durable, extensible technology
Set and uphold high standards for reliability, testing, observability, security, and operational excellence
Lead, mentor, and develop senior engineers and technical leads, creating an environment of high ownership, intellectual rigor, and continuous improvement
Actively shape how teams work, including how they reason about quality, correctness, and delivery in complex systems
Bring a clear point of view on how high-performing teams should design, build, and operate production platforms
Set expectations, provide regular feedback, and coach individuals toward sustained growth and impact
Build and scale teams through hiring, onboarding, and ongoing talent development
Foster strong collaboration across technology, research, and investment groups
Establish and evolve engineering practices that enable teams to consistently ship high-quality systems
Balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term platform health, resilience, and sustainability
Drive clarity around technical roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across the platform portfolio
Champion strong documentation, shared context, and operational transparency
Partner with senior technology and business leaders to shape multi-platform strategy and execution
Communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Influence technology direction through sound judgment, principled reasoning, and hands-on engagement