Asia Commodities Data Engineer & Researcher

Bridgewater Associates; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates in New York City and Singapore is seeking a Data Engineer for the Asia Strategies Commodities desk. You will own data feeds, build pipelines, and deliver research-ready datasets used to drive trading decisions.

The role emphasizes direct vendor data ownership, analytics-driven problem solving, and production-quality code within a fast-paced investment environment. onsite four days a week; Mandarin preferred.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in a data engineering, data science, or analyst role at a commodity trading house, hedge fund, or research organization with exposure to commodities markets.
• Familiarity with metals fundamentals and commodities market data preferred.
• Experience with systematic commodities trading strongly preferred.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; production-quality code.
• Experience with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake or similar).
• Willingness to expand toolkit to adapt to our scala based production stack
• Mandarin proficiency strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Source and maintain vendor data feeds, working directly with vendors to resolve data quality issues and communicate new features
• Transform granular, contract-level market data into derived analytical constructs — curves, spreads, aggregated indicators — that feed directly into research and portfolio decisions
• Build the data infrastructure that feeds fundamental supply/demand balance models — from raw inventory, production, and shipment data to balance‑ready inputs
• Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring tools the team relies on daily — tracking both data health and market conditions, and flagging breaks or shifts before they affect the book
• Partner closely with investors and developers to ensure data is research‑ready, well‑documented, and reproducible across simulation and live environments
• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines supporting systematic commodities strategies.
• Interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, stability over time, and structural breaks
• Design and maintain our data ontology and schemas
• Work across a variety of datasets ranging from traditional datasets to large alternative datasets
• Work with shared data engineering and platform teams to evolve the broader data ecosystem while maintain team‑level ownership and agility
• Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and system reliability

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Snowflake

Mandarin

Time-series analysis

Statistics

Commodity markets

Production-quality code

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Bridgewater Associates in New York City and Singapore is seeking a Data Engineer for the Asia Strategies Commodities desk. You will own data feeds, build pipelines, and deliver research-ready datasets used to drive trading decisions.

The role emphasizes direct vendor data ownership, analytics-driven problem solving, and production-quality code within a fast-paced investment environment. onsite four days a week; Mandarin preferred.