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Bridgewater Associates

Bridgewater Associates is hiring: Remote Work From Home Entry Level Data Entry A

Bridgewater Associates, Westport, CT, US

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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. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. About the Investment 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. 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. • Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs. • Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. As part of the research team, the Signal Implementation group is responsible for owning and deeply understanding both the data that flows from the outside world and the logic applied to it within Bridgewater's systematic trading systems. As a Data Associate, you will help us achieve our mission by owning and deeply understanding the data and logic used to build Bridgewater's systematic trading systems. This means understanding the content itself, the process by which the content is updated, validated, and evolved and how this content fits into Bridgewater's understanding of the world. In this role, you will be expected to understand both the current data ecosystem and the needs of investment professionals, with a long-term vision for how our investment data ecosystem should scale and adapt over time. You will take ownership of key data workflows, ensuring high standards for investment data quality and consistency across the firm. We are looking for someone who combines a rigorous analytical mindset with a passion for data, content integrity, and system improvement. The ideal candidate has several years of experience working with data systems. Understanding sets of investment "data concepts" - how outside data is used at Bridgewater from both a conceptual investment and technical construction perspective (e.g., pricing, macroeconomic, fundamentals, alternative data). • Validating the accuracy of those data concepts - providing domain expertise in content understanding, especially around market, security master, and time-series data. • Accepting and engaging with new data as our systematic investment engine incorporates it - refining and maintaining high standards for data engineering and investment data integrity. • Continuously evolving these data concepts over time by improving the logic or technical definitions, contributing directly to improving Bridgewater's investment logic. • Working with Bridgewater's partners in the content supply chain (analytics, engineering, and technology) to address data quality, architectural or logic issues. • Collaborating with vendors, engineers, and data consumers to streamline workflows and improve data time-to-insight. • Operate workflows that enrich and augment unstructured data assets. • Execute and evaluate data creation for benchmarking of LLM assets and AI tools. Are analytical, highly logical, and structured in your thinking • Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets • Are passionate about data • Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do • Enjoy learning about new data tools and programming languages 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution. • 2-4 years of relevant experience in data. • Strong working knowledge of financial data (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, alternative data vendors). • Experience working with time-series data and security master data. • Familiarity with data modeling, data pipelines, and cloud-based data solutions (e.g., Snowflake, AWS). • Proficient in at least one programming language. • The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. Explore more information about Bridgewater's benefits on our website here. This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.