Systematic China Equity Data Engineer — End-to-End Research

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

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates seeks a Data Engineer to join the Asia Strategies team, focusing on building data infrastructure for systematic China equity research. You will work closely with researchers and developers to power alpha research, portfolio construction, and live trading through end-to-end data pipelines.

The role emphasizes ingestion, modeling, quality checks, and integration with production systems, requiring Mandarin fluency and experience with large, evolving datasets in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role, embedded with systematic investment teams or data-intensive tech environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience building production-quality, maintainable data pipelines.
• Fluency in Mandarin required.
• Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake).
• Familiarity with distributed processing and workflow orchestration (e.g., Spark, Airflow).
• Proven ability to reason about data correctness, lineage, versioning, and reproducibility.
• Experience with high-dimensional, messy datasets including financial market data.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new datasets.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of key investment datasets.
• Develop and maintain robust data models, ontologies, and schemas.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for research and production workflows.
• Collaborate with researchers, quantitative developers, and engineering teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Mandarin

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

Spark

Job description

Bridgewater Associates seeks a Data Engineer to join the Asia Strategies team, focusing on building data infrastructure for systematic China equity research. You will work closely with researchers and developers to power alpha research, portfolio construction, and live trading through end-to-end data pipelines.

The role emphasizes ingestion, modeling, quality checks, and integration with production systems, requiring Mandarin fluency and experience with large, evolving datasets in a fast-paced