<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the Implementation Department </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">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. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles: </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Understand and deliver internal client needs.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> 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. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Own our investment intent.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Continuously improve.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About Your Role </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You will drive the following responsibilities: </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Design, build and evolve the investment system that manages our portfolios from risk controls through to trade generation. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Translate investment goals and understanding into elegant and robust systematic logic. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Dive deep into the systems and learn the contents to perceive issues in our logic and translate those problems into business solutions. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Visualize different ways to streamline and industrialize our Portfolio Construction through trade delivery process. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Own and develop tools to oversee and validate our Portfolio Construction process. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Set and enforce high engineering standards for building robust, maintainable, large-scale systems across the Implementation team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 4 days per week at our Westport, CT campus. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Minimum Qualifications</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">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 bu