Staff Security Architect

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.  

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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.   

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About the Security Group  

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape. 

About the Role 

As a Security Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping the security posture of our technology landscape. This role is deeply involved in the early stages of solution design, working alongside engineering, product, and business teams to ensure security is foundational, not an afterthought. You will drive the development of scalable, secure-by-design architectures, including those supporting AI/ML systems and AI-assisted development workflows, that align with enterprise strategy and reduce organizational risk. 

This is a strategic and advisory role that blends technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration. You'll define and evolve security patterns, including frameworks for securing AI pipelines and governing AI-assisted coding tools, and contribute to enterprise architecture decisions, and provide governance that supports innovation while maintaining strong security standards. Your insights will directly influence how we build and scale secure systems across the organization. 

Focus Areas 

• Security Strategy: Shape and influence the long-term security vision by aligning architectural decisions with enterprise goals, emerging threats (including adversarial AI, model poisoning, and prompt injection), and evolving technology landscapes such as LLM-integrated applications and autonomous agents.
• Architecture Advisory: Provide expert guidance to engineering and product teams, ensuring security is embedded throughout the design lifecycle and enabling informed, risk-aware decision-making.
• Design Governance: Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and review processes that promote consistency, scalability, and secure-by-design principles across all solutions. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Architectural Partnership: Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and business units to embed security early in the design phase of systems and solutions. 

• Security Patterns & Reference Architectures: Define, maintain, and evolve security patterns and reference architectures for emerging technologies and novel use cases, including AI/ML pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and AI-assisted development toolchains. 

• Enterprise Alignment: Translate enterprise architecture direction into actionable security architecture decisions and platform guidance. 

• Engineering Collaboration: Work closely with Security Engineering to validate the feasibility and execution of architecture decisions. 

• AI Security & Secure AI Development: Define security standards for AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., code-generation guardrails, secret-leak prevention, dependency vetting), evaluate AI/ML platform risks, and establish architectural guidance for securely integrating LLMs and AI agents into enterprise systems. 

• Risk Assessment Support: Serve as a key resource in risk assessments by conducting thorough architecture reviews and providing actionable, meaningful feedback to support well-informed, risk-based decision-making. 

Requirements and Experience 

Experience & Background 

• 10+ years of experience in security architecture, engineering, or related technical roles 

• Proven track record of designing and delivering secure architectures for complex, large-scale systems and initiatives. 

• Deep understanding of modern security principles, cloud-native architectures, secure software development practices, and security considerations for AI/ML systems (e.g., model integrity, data poisoning). 

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including engineering, AI/ML platforms, threat detection, and data analytics. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive adoption of architectural standards across multiple teams. 

Technical Expertise 

• Strong knowledge of security architecture frameworks, threat modeling (including AI-specific threat models such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications), and risk assessment methodologies. 

• Proficiency in designing reusable security components and driving design excellence through governance and review processes. 

• Familiarity with detection engineering, data analytics pipelines, and their integration into secure architectures. 

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML security services (e.g., AWS Bedrock Guardrails, Azure AI Content Safety, GCP Vertex AI security controls). Leadership & Collaboration. 

• Ability to lead architectural discussions and provide guidance to senior and security architects. 

• Skilled in mentoring and developing architectural talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. 

• Comfortable participating in technical oversight committees and contributing to enterprise-wide architectural strategy. 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical decisions with business objectives and stakeholder needs 

Leadership & Collaboration 

• Ability to lead architectural discussions and provide guidance to senior and security architects. 

• Skilled in mentoring and developing architectural talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. 

• Comfortable participating in technical oversight committees and contributing to enterprise-wide architectural strategy. 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to align technical decisions with business objectives and stakeholder needs. 

Physical Requirements 

This role is offered as hybrid with options to work out of our NYC or CT offices. 

Compensation  

The wage range for this role is $450,000 - $600,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 65 - 75% of this wage range.  

Why Choose Bridgewater?  

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

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.  

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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. 

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 do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer