Research Associate, Quantitative Developer

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 to 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. 

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 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. 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. The goal of Asia Strategies is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. 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.

About Your Role

We are seeking a Quantitative Developer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. This is a hands-on, embedded role, working directly with the portfolio manager and researchers in a tight-knit, fast-paced environment. You will have consistent exposure to senior investment leadership and play a central role in translating research ideas into robust, production-ready, systems.

Unlike high-frequency or execution-driven QD roles, this position emphasizes (1) research enablement (2) model implementation (3) data pipelines (4) portfolio construction (5) oversight. You will sit at the intersection of research, engineering, and portfolio management, with direct ownership over the tools and systems that drive investment decisions.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Research Enablement & Implementation
• Partner closely with the PM and researchers to translate alpha ideas into scalable, production-quality models.
• Maintain and evolve our research & production environments – from signal development to portfolio construction & risk management.
• Incorporate AI/Machine Learning technologies into the team’s research and investment process.
• Data & Infrastructure
• Efficiently engineer and assess datasets for alpha potential. Work across large, unstructured, and alternative datasets relevant to APAC markets.
• Ensure data quality, reproducibility, and performance across research and live environments
• Portfolio Construction & Analytics
• Develop tools to monitor portfolio exposures, risk, performance attribution, and signal behavior.
• Partner with the PM on discretionary overlays, stress testing, and scenario analysis.
• Work across trade execution and portfolio implementation teams to manage our portfolios.
• Collaboration
• Work across our data engineers, developers, and researchers to evolve our shared research platform and data ecosystem.
• Contribute to improving productivity, tooling, and research velocity within the pod.

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You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have a passion for financial markets and systematic investing.
• Have a drive to build the backbone that directly impacts P&L.
• Have a drive to understand the fundamental cause and effe