About Your Role

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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

• 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.

Career Growth at Bridgewater

From day one, you'll be on a deliberate growth path:

• Structured onboarding and apprenticeship: Build a deep understanding of how Bridgewater manages portfolios at institutional scale.
• Progressive ownership: Start by owning individual subsystems and evolve toward managing full portfolio processes end-to-end.
• Cross-functional exposure: Work directly with investors, system architects, and trading teams - gaining a 360° view of how capital is deployed.
• Leadership development: As you gain experience, mentor junior engineers and help shape our systems, culture, and investment platform.
• Career mobility: Bridgewater encourages growth across teams - Portfolio Engineers often transition into broader investment system ownership or leadership roles.

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

Compensation Band

The wage range for this role is $225,000-$450,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 60% - 75% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater's benefits on our website here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

The Portfolio Engineer full time position requires the candidate to be 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.