
Senior Product Engineer, AIA Labs at Bridgewater Associates
New York CityFull-timeAIA LabsPosted 12 days ago
About the Role
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">About AIA Labs</span></h4>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">AIA Labs is an in-house venture at Bridgewater Associates, led by Managing Chief Investment Officer Greg Jensen, focused on using the state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate returns in markets. We manage a dedicated investment strategy on behalf of the world’s most sophisticated pools of capital and employ the latest tools in AI, machine learning, statistics, and optimization. Our work is organized around a single mission: to create a general-purpose intelligence (an “artificial investor”) capable of performing systematic investment research. We maintain extensive ties to broader research community and cultivate a collegial, intellectually vibrant work environment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We maintain extensive ties to the broader research community and cultivate a collegial, intellectually vibrant work environment. </span></span></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Senior Product Engineer, AIA Labs</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are seeking a Senior Product Engineer to evolve and scale our AI platform to accelerate research and empower scientists and investors to do their best work. This is a highly cross-functional, high-impact role for someone who deeply understands business needs, has strong product and design instincts, and can move seamlessly from concept to shipped code.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You will enhance our existing AI research platform by adding new components, expanding capabilities, and architecting systems that make research workflows faster, smarter, and more intuitive. We expect you to lead in use of agentic development tooling and design systems that enable our scientists and investors to best utilize those same agentic capabilities. This role requires an AI-first mindset, technical excellence, product thinking, and natural leadership. </span></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What You'll Do</span></h4>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enhance and extend the current AI platform to better support research and scientific workflows</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Translate business and scientific needs into technical architecture and product solutions</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead end-to-end capability development: concept, design, implementation, iteration, and deployment</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Architect scalable AI-native systems with a focus on integration with agentic development tooling</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner closely with scientists, investors, product leaders, and engineering teams</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and direction across teams</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Move quickly — prototype, validate, iterate — without sacrificing quality</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who You Are</span></strong></p>
<h3><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">AI-First Builder</span></em></h3>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Deep understanding of modern AI systems (LLMs, agents, tool use, harnesses, orchestration, etc.)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At the edge of agentic development practices and supporting tooling</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Understands how to design products around AI capabilities rather than bolting AI on</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Strong Engineer</em></span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Able to design and implement enterprise-grade systems</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bias towards simplicity and quality</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable with experimentation and rapid iteration</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Product-Oriented Thinker</em></span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Understands business needs and can translate them into technical solutions</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong design sense — cares about usability, workflows, and user experience</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thinks in terms of leverage, impact, and adoption</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Fast-Paced & Energetic</em></span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thrives in dynamic, high-velocity environments</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bias toward action and shipping</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comfortable operating with ambiguity and shaping direction</span></li>
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<h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Leader at L7 Level</em></span></h3>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sets technical direction, not just execution</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Raises the bar for engineering quality and product thinking</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Operates with ownership mindset and long-term thinking</span></li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></span></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7–12+ years of experience in engineering, AI systems, or product engineering roles</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proven experience building AI-driven platforms or products</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong understanding of machine learning systems</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience working closely with domain experts (scientists, researchers, analysts)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Track record of delivering comprehensive systems end-to-end</span></li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Physical Requirements</strong></span></span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 4 days per week at our New York City office location.</span></li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Compensation Band</strong></span></span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">The wage range for this role is </span><span data-contrast="auto">$1M - $1.5M (with Upside) </span><span data-contrast="none">inclusive of base salary, <span data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun" data-ccp-charstyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"ac0262f4-8a9e-5820-b908-2d943c5f7113|1","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[201342446,"1",201342447,"5",201342448,"3",201342449,"1",469777841,"Aptos",469777842,"Arial",469777843,"MS 明朝",469777844,"Aptos",201341986,"1",469769226,"Aptos,Arial,MS 明朝",268442635,"24",469775450,"normaltextrun",201340122,"1",134233614,"true",469778129,"normaltextrun",335572020,"1",469778324,"Default Paragraph Font"]}">discretionary target bonus and Long Term Incentive. The expected base salary for this role is between 40-60% of this wage range. </span></span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p><span data-contrast="none">One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website </span><a href="https://www.bridgewater.com/working-at-bridgewater/benefits"><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">here.</span></span></a><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="none">Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. </span></em><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="none">This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we </span></em><em><span data-contrast="auto">do not</span></em><em><span data-contrast="none"> provide immigration sponsorship for this position. </span></em><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="none">Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer</span></em><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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