Data Engineer - Systematic China Equity Research

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

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates in New York City is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Asia Strategies team, working closely with researchers to build data infrastructure and pipelines that support systematic China equity research and production workflows.

You will own end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to delivery, collaborate with researchers and developers, and ensure data quality and reliability across evolving datasets. Fluency in Mandarin and strong Python/SQL are required.

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role, either embedded with systematic investment teams or in a high-scale, data-intensive tech environment.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience building production-quality, maintainable data pipelines.
• Fluency in Mandarin required.
• Experience 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 with downstream impact.
• Comfort using lightweight statistical analysis to assess data quality and suitability for research.
• Experience with high-dimensional, messy datasets including financial market and reference data; knowledge of Wind data sources is a plus.
• Humility, curiosity, openness to feedback, and commitment to excellence.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new datasets that can enhance our investment process, assessing their quality and long-term value.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of key investment datasets from ingestion to maintenance and evolution.
• Develop robust, scalable data models, ontologies, and schemas for investment concepts.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for systematic China equity research and production workflows.
• Collaborate with researchers, developers, and engineers to translate research needs into reliable data assets.
• Profile and interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, and stability over time.
• Implement data quality checks, anomaly detection, and monitoring for production datasets.
• Resolve data quality issues with data providers and stakeholders; drive enhancements.
• Build relationships with data vendors and stay informed on new products and capabilities.

Skills

Python

SQL

Mandarin

Snowflake

Spark

Airflow

Data pipelines

Data quality

Data modeling

Data lineage

Tools

Snowflake

Wind

Job description

Bridgewater Associates in New York City is seeking a Data Engineer to join our Asia Strategies team, working closely with researchers to build data infrastructure and pipelines that support systematic China equity research and production workflows.

You will own end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to delivery, collaborate with researchers and developers, and ensure data quality and reliability across evolving datasets. Fluency in Mandarin and strong Python/SQL are required.