Equities Research Associate

• →Build and maintain relationships with data vendors, staying informed on new products and capabilities through conferences, research, and regular engagement.

• →Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and strengthen the team's data ecosystem. 

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Care deeply about building high-quality, trustworthy data that directly enables better investment decisions. 

• Enjoy taking end-to-end ownership of data assets—from evaluating new data sources to designing, maintaining, and evolving production datasets. 

• Are intellectually curious and seek to understand not just the data itself, but the business and investment concepts it represents. 

• Enjoy solving ambiguous problems where data definitions evolve, requirements change, and thoughtful judgment is required. 

• Are a strong collaborator who can work effectively with researchers, engineers, product teams, and external data providers to improve data quality and capabilities. 

• Think in systems, balancing immediate research needs with scalable, maintainable solutions that will stand the test of time. 

• Are detail-oriented and hold a high bar for data quality, reliability, and correctness. 

• Are proactive, self-directed, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can evolve quickly. 

• Are eager to learn, embrace feedback, and continuously deepen your technical and domain expertise. 

• Are excited by the opportunity to have a direct impact on a systematic investment process through the quality of the data that powers it. 

• Are curious about alpha research and excited to build foundational knowledge. Over time, there may be opportunities to expand into alpha development for those who are interested. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

Minimum Qualifications

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role, either: embedded with systematic investment teams (hedge fund, asset manager, bank), or in a high-scale, data-intensive technology environment (e.g., consumer, payments, or platform companies). 

• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience building production-quality, maintainable data pipelines. 

• Fluency in Mandarin required 

• Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses). 

• Familiarity with distributed processing and workflow orchestration (e.g., Spark, Airflow, or equivalents). 

• Proven ability to reason about data correctness, lineage, versioning, and reproducibility in environments where data errors have material downstream impact. 

• Comfort using lightweight statistical analysis and data science techniques to assess data quality, coverage, and suitability for research use. 

• Demonstrated experience working with high-dimensional, messy, and evolving datasets, including financial market and reference data (e.g., prices, fundamentals, corporate actions), or large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-driven data with complex schemas and quality challenges. 

• Familiarity with the Chinese equity market, including its market structure and key data sources (e.g., Wind), or broader investment landscape. 

• Experience navigating Chinese data realities, including jurisdiction-specific macro definitions, country-specific corporate structures, and uneven disclosure and historical coverage.  

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. 

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. 

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