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# Research Associate, Commodities Data Engineer at Bridgewater Associates

- **Company:** Bridgewater Associates
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bridgewater89/jobs/8632073002

## Job description

## About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website [here](https://www.bridgewater.com/).

Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a [Philosophy Statement](https://www.bridgewater.com/culture/bridgewaters-original-philosophy)which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on [Meritocracy.](https://www.bridgewater.com/culture/bridgewaters-idea-meritocracy) Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

## About the Team

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department, whose goal is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in Asia. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region.

Within Asia Strategies, Asia Commodities is a dedicated investment team responsible for generating alpha and managing risk. The team's research and signals feed directly into the commodities strategy for Bridgewater's largest funds in the region.

## About Your Role

We're seeking a Data Engineer to join the Commodities team within Asia Strategies, embedded directly on the desk with direct impact on trading strategies and exposure to the CIO and Senior PMs responsible for key Asia strategies. You'll work in a tight-knit, fast-paced environment where the pipelines and data you own feed directly into live investment decisions.

This position emphasizes (1) direct ownership of vendor data relationships and quality, (2) research-adjacent problem solving — understanding why the team needs the data concepts before you analyze it, (3) data operations spanning the full research cycle, from raw vendor feed to modeled data to live dashboards and trading indicators, and (4) sitting inside the investment process and developing expertise in Asia Commodities as an asset class.

Given the size of the team, you'll drive your own agenda rather than wait to be told what's next — spotting a gap before it's flagged, pushing through a fix rather than escalating and waiting. We're looking for someone entrepreneurial and resourceful, who wants to build serious infrastructure while staying close to a live book and the decisions it drives.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Investment Data Engineering, Research/Production Enablement, and Platform Collaboration

- Source and maintain vendor data feeds, working directly with vendors to resolve data quality issues and communicate new features
- Transform granular, contract-level market data into derived analytical constructs — curves, spreads, aggregated indicators — that feed directly into research and portfolio decisions
- Build the data infrastructure that feeds fundamental supply/demand balance models — from raw inventory, production, and shipment data to balance-ready inputs
- Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring tools the team relies on daily — tracking both data health and market conditions, and flagging breaks or shifts before they affect the book
- Partner closely with investors and developers to ensure data is research-ready, well-documented, and reproducible across simulation and live environments
- Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines supporting systematic commodities strategies.
- Interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, stability over time, and structural breaks
- Design and maintain our data ontology and schemas
- Work across a variety of datasets ranging from traditional datasets to large alternative datasets
- Work with shared data engineering and platform teams to evolve the broader data ecosystem while maintain team-level ownership and agility
- Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and system reliability

Research & Data Science

- Partner with our investors to research questions on commodity markets and commodity-producing companies, with a specific focus on Asia and Chinese commodities markets, and turn that understanding into systematic trading strategies
- Contribute fundamental context to data decisions –  flagging when a data quality issue or vendor discrepancy has a market explanation worth surfacing to the research team
- Incorporate AI/ML technologies into the team's research and data infrastructure

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees [here](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/the-bridgewater-experience).

## Qualifications

- 2–4 years of experience in a data engineering, data science, or analyst role at a commodity trading house, hedge fund, or research organization with exposure to commodities markets.
- Familiarity with metals fundamentals and commodities market data preferred. Additional experience with other commodities (e.g. Ags, PetChem) would be a plus.
- Experience with systematic commodities trading strongly preferred.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL preferred. Experience writing production-quality, maintainable code
- Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses)
- Willingness to expand toolkit to adapt to our scala based production stack
- Strong desire to work with new development assistant technologies to drive productivity
- Experience designing, documenting, and scaling commodities data and trading systems
- Solid foundation in statistics, particularly time-series and cross-sectional analysis
- Mandarin proficiency strongly preferred

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Physical Requirements

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

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.

## Compensation Band

- The expected annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$200,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.

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.](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/benefits)

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. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

## About Bridgewater Associates

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm that develops a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of markets and economies, translating that understanding into systematic, data-driven investment insights and solutions for the world’s leading institutional investors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (employee-owned / privately held)
- **Headquarters**: Westport, Connecticut, USA (additional offices in New York City, Shanghai, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 1975
- **Founders**: Ray Dalio (founder; transitioned leadership in 2022)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial services – global macro investment management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, endowments, foundations)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges.” [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/)

## Products & Services
Bridgewater does not offer off‑the‑shelf consumer products but provides institutional investment solutions:
- **Global Macro Investment Strategies**: Systematic, research‑driven portfolios that seek to capture return streams across global asset classes based on underlying economic drivers.
- **Portfolio Construction & Risk Management**: Customized solutions using Bridgewater’s proprietary risk‑parity and alpha‑overlay frameworks.
- **Research & Advisory**: Investment insights and market analysis delivered to clients through regular publications and direct client engagement.
- **Systematic Investment Platform**: A codified, repeatable process that integrates human judgment with machine intelligence to test and refine investment decisions continuously. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held). Industry estimates place Assets Under Management (AUM) well over $100 billion, but no official figure is disclosed in the provided sources.
- **Key Metric**: AUM is the primary metric; exact amount is not publicly disclosed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The firm serves the world’s largest institutional investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and endowments. Specific client names are confidential.
- **Growth Signals**: Bridgewater has publicly emphasized the integration of AI and machine intelligence into its systematic investment process, positioning itself at the forefront of technology‑driven investing. The firm continues to hire across investment, technology, and client‑facing roles, and maintains offices in multiple global financial hubs. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Idea Meritocracy**: A culture where the best ideas win regardless of hierarchy, enforced through radical truth and transparency. This accelerates learning and decision‑making. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/culture)
- **Systematic Research Engine**: Over five decades of codifying economic cause‑and‑effect relationships into a systematic, repeatable investment process that is continuously tested against reality.
- **Integration of AI**: Machine intelligence is embedded across the research and investment platform, allowing the firm to test hypotheses at scale and improve decision‑making while retaining human oversight. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/faqs)
- **Long‑Term Track Record**: A history of delivering differentiated returns for institutional clients, built on a unique culture and proprietary research.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening AI Integration**: Continuing to embed artificial intelligence and machine learning into investment research, portfolio construction, and operational processes.
- **Talent & Culture Evolution**: Evolving the culture (e.g., revisiting principles after founder transition in 2022) while maintaining the core idea‑meritocracy values that drive performance.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing client relationships and investment capabilities across key markets (U.S., China, Singapore) through a multi‑office footprint.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Demanding, high‑performance environment focused on intellectual honesty, open debate, and continuous improvement. Employees are expected to challenge assumptions and take high ownership. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/culture)
- **Learning Curve**: Described as “the steepest possible learning curve” due to transparency, feedback loops, and exposure to complex investment problems.
- **Work Policy**: Most employees are required to be onsite a minimum of four days per week (Monday–Thursday) with the option to work remotely on Friday. Some roles may have additional onsite requirements. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/faqs)
- **Locations**: Primary campus in Westport, CT; additional offices in New York City, Shanghai, and Singapore.
- **Benefits**: Competitive benefits supporting health, savings, family, and life (specific details not enumerated in provided sources). [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/faqs)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Emphasized as part of building an idea meritocracy; the firm hires from a wide range of backgrounds. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater)

## Sources
1. [bridgewater.com](https://www.bridgewater.com/) – Company overview, mission, investment approach
2. [bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater) – Careers overview, culture, diversity
3. [bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/faqs](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/faqs) – FAQs on work policy, culture, technology, hiring
4. [bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/job-openings](https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/job-openings) – Current job openings
5. [bridgewater.com/culture](https://www.bridgewater.com/culture) – Culture description (idea meritocracy, radical truth)

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