Portfolio Engineer

Bridgewater Associates LP • Westport, CT

5d • $225,000 - $450,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Portfolio Engineer at Bridgewater, you’ll sit at the crossroads of investment strategies, analytics, and trade implementation - helping transform Bridgewater’s ideas into real portfolios that move markets. Your mission is to solve the puzzle of managing money at material scale - from risk controls through trade generation . You’ll connect investment intent with real-world execution, ensuring every position reflects the full richness of our insights with precision and scale. Portfolio Engineers must think like builders and portfolio managers . You’ll collaborate closely with investment teams and technologists - bridging the gap to engineer solutions.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in engineering, data science, or a quantitative investment environment.
• Strong problem-solving instincts and a desire to use technology to solve high-stakes, real-world problems.
• Fluent in programming (Python, Scala, or SQL) and comfortable reasoning through complex systems.
• Excellent communicator who can translate technical concepts for both engineers and investors.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and energized by working across disciplines to get to the best answer.

Responsibilities

• Architect portfolio systems that translate investment strategy into executable trades, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and efficient.
• Partner cross-functionally with investors, trading, data, and engineering teams to diagnose issues, streamline processes, and bring investment logic to life.
• Design and enforce standards for portfolio construction, risk control, and trade generation - balancing investment precision with operational excellence.
• Visualize and industrialize workflows , helping us scale our portfolio management processes.
• Own and evolve oversight tools to validate that portfolios are behaving as intended and capital is being deployed effectively.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed