Senior Compiler Engineer (DSL)

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

 Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Technology Department 

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world.  These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital.  Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

Research Tech 

The goal of the Research department is to fundamentally understand how the global economy works.  Embedded within the Research department is a uniquely talented technology team that builds the tools that allow our macro economists to conduct their research and understand the world’s economies at a level we believe no other firm is capable of.  These tools tackle problems from data ingestion and storage, to data visualizations, to signal creation.

 Position Responsibilities

With a fundamental approach to researching markets, and systematic approach to understanding and executing on that understanding, Bridgewater places an unparalleled emphasis on technology as the key component to this process. This team is on the front-line interacting directly with users (some of the brightest economic minds at Bridgewater) and building solutions to improve our investment platform and express our investment logic.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to deeply understand syntax of languages and build Bridgewater's own financial language to manipulate incoming data and express top secret investment logic.
• Working on a small team (<10) of elite engineers with backgrounds from research-heavy environments such as Google and MIT.
• Developing extremely sophisticated tools in collaboration with our Research department 

Preferred Requirements:

• Minimum 5-10 years professional software development experience in technically rigorous environments holding extremely high bars for their engineers.
• Deep expertise with compilers and parsers 
• Background building programming languages and understanding syntax of languages
• Strong computer science fundamentals with experience working across the entire software stack.
• Experience with extremely complex systems and a fluency with contemporary programming languages, patterns, and architectures
• Programming experience with RUST, Scala or functional programming is a plus, but not required.
• A keen ability to interact with users to understand their needs, use cases, and pain points

Compensation Band:

The wage range for this role is, $300,000 - $500,000, inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.

Location Requirements

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility with most empl