# Portfolio Systems Engineer at Bridgewater Associates > United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Abridgewater89%3A8913629002 (read 2026-11-05). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Bridgewater Associates](https://alderhq.app/companies/bridgewater-associates) - Location text: Westport, CT; Professional - Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Westport, CT; Professional") - Posted: 2026-10-24 (13 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bridgewater89/jobs/8913629002 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 5124): p25 $128k, median $158k, p75 $198k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 10, median offered wage $193k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) ## Description (the employer's text) ### About the Implementation Department The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems. We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles: - Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs. - Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit. - Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs. - Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market. ### About Your Role We are an Engineering owned and led organization which strives to balance independence with incredible community support in an environment that is intellectually vibrant and driven to make a mark on the world as a collaborative force. As a Portfolio Systems Engineer on the Portfolio Implementation team, your mission is to design, build, and evolve the complex, large-scale systems that manage money at the size and scale Bridgewater does — from Risk Controls through to Trade Generation. You will spend your time architecting and industrializing the investment systems that run our portfolios and investment strategies. The Portfolio Systems Engineer will be embedded within the Portfolio Implementation Team and gain a key understanding of our portfolio construction logic, process, and systems. You will drive the following responsibilities: - Design, build and evolve the investment system that manages our portfolios from risk controls through to trade generation. - Translate investment goals and understanding into elegant and robust systematic logic. - Dive deep into the systems and learn the contents to perceive issues in our logic and translate those problems into business solutions. - Visualize different ways to streamline and industrialize our Portfolio Construction through trade delivery process. - Own and develop tools to oversee and validate our Portfolio Construction process. - Set and enforce high engineering standards for building robust, maintainable, large-scale systems across the Implementation team. The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 4 days per week at our Westport, CT campus. ### Minimum Qualifications As a Portfolio Systems Engineer, you have a genuine passion for building complex software systems — you’re drawn to hard, interesting problems and enjoy designing systems that are robust, scalable, and built to last. - Have 2+ years of professional experience in a relevant engineering field and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field. - Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and develop innovative solutions. - Have hands-on coding experience in any language — we care far more about how you build and your ability to learn than about any specific language. - Are eager to learn our investment concepts and language — e.g., security mechanics, portfolio construction, and how we model them — well enough to apply them in the systems you build. - Enjoy tinkering — you care not just about the work you produce but how you produce it, continually sharpening our tools and workflows (including leveraging AI) to work better and faster. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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