Portfolio Engineer

Bridgewater Associates•Westport, CT

4d•Hybrid

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 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.
Eligible to work in the United States for a minimum of 3 years from the candidate’s start date.
If visa sponsorship is required for any part of the three years, the successful candidate must demonstrate continuous, or eligibility to renew, work authorization in the United States for at least three years after the date of hire, without being subject to selection through a lottery process.

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.