AI / ML Engineer, VP

BlackRock - AI Labs Job Description

About This Role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from data science and machine learning— to help solve complex problems.

About the AI Labs

The AI Labs team within BlackRock is focused on building innovative solutions using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enhance our investment processes and deliver greater value to our clients. We are a collaborative team of data scientists, engineers, and researchers dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

The Minimum Requirements For This Position Are

• 4+ year experience shipping code to production environments
• Strong programming language skills in Python and SQL
• Experience building cloud native applications
• Great problem-solving and communication skills

Knowledge And Experience We Are Looking For Includes

• DevOps automation, idempotent deployment testing, and continuous delivery pipleines
• Networking and security protocols, load balancers, API Gateways
• ETL tooling and workflow engines (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Flyte)
• Accelerated compute libraries and hardware (e.g. pytorch, NVIDIA GPUs)
• Data modeling, and strategies for cleaning and validating data at scale
• Performance tuning on RDBMS or Big Data tools for row- and column-oriented use-cases
• Telemetry and related tools (metrics, event logging, tracing, etc.)
• Ability to traverse full stack

The Job

• Participate in team agile processes, and proactively contribute to team culture
• Advise data scientists and researchers on product architecture and system design, and collaborate on complex deliverables
• Troubleshooting and resolution of production incidents
• Build and maintain scalable and reliable machine learning pipelines
• Develop and implement innovative AI solutions
• Contribute to the development of best practices and standards for AI development

Our Benefits

• To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
• BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

For NY7 - 50 Hudson Yards, New York Only the salary range for this position is USD$162,000.00 - USD$215,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.