Senior Associate, Investment Engineering (Analytics Platforms)
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Associate
- 7–10 years
Investment Engineering is responsible for ownership of investment data and analysis tools, managing data from acquisition through distribution, driving analysis to create insights, and creating analysis consumed by internal and external clients and reports.
Responsibilities
- Architect, write code for, and optimize internal data platforms and self-service applications, ensuring secure, high-performance user access to data.
- Independently design and build robust automated data pipelines, semantic layers, and scalable data models that cleanly translate complex investment workflows into production-grade infrastructure.
- Set the technical benchmark by writing clean, testable code, conducting rigorous code reviews, and resolving complex debugging issues.
- Act as the technical translator and product owner, partnering with departments like Portfolio Management and the Global Client Group to gather raw requirements and directly engineer technical solutions.
- Own the end-to-end technical product lifecycle, managing both product feature roadmaps and hands-on system enhancements to guarantee uptime, data reliability, and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in Financial Engineering
- Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative field