Research Associate, Data Engineer

Bridgewater Associates is seeking a Research Associate, Data Engineer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. The role will own the end-to-end data lifecycle that powers alpha research, portfolio construction, and live trading.

Requirements

• Identify and assess new datasets to identify their merit in our investment process.
• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines supporting systematic macro and long/short equity strategies.
• Partner closely with researchers and quantitative developers to ensure data is research-ready, well-documented, and reproducible across simulation and live environments.
• Profile and interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, stability over time, and structural breaks.
• Implement data quality checks, anomaly detection, and monitoring to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of production datasets.
• Design and maintain our data ontology and schemas
• Work across a variety of datasets including traditional datasets (fundamentals, market data, security master, etc.) to large alternative datasets.
• Work with shared data engineering and platform teams to evolve the broader data ecosystem while maintaining pod-level ownership and agility.
• Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and system reliability

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ($150,000-$200,000)
• Variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus
• Generous paid time off
• 401k matching
• Retirement plan
• Visa sponsorship
• Four day work week
• Generous parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Relocation assistance