Senior AI Engineer - GenAI/ML Aladdin Engineering - Vice President

About this role

About this Role:
At BlackRock technology is the foundation of our business. As an AI Engineer (GenAI/ML) you’ll lead by example — architecting coding and mentoring teams to build resilient systems that apply Generative AI and Machine Learning to improve operational efficiency user experience and insight generation across our global post-trade operations. You’ll design and deliver enterprise-scale AI-enabled software with a focus on reliability governance and clean engineering practices.

This role is ideal for a technical leader who enjoys staying close to the code guiding design decisions and building agentic systems (tool-using AI agents) and ML services — all while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

About Post Trade Accounting (PTA):

• A major strategic area within Aladdin and one of BlackRock’s largest engineering investments.
• Responsible for the systems that ensure accurate scalable and efficient accounting across global operations.
• Expanding into data analytics and pipeline initiatives using Snowflake Redis and Kafka to manage high-volume real-time data.
• Collaborates closely with Product Operations and other Engineering teams to deliver business-critical capabilities.
• Agile and collaborative environment that values technical depth quality and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop production AI services that embed GenAI and ML into enterprise workflows.
• Build AI agents that can plan and execute multi-step tasks by calling approved tools/APIs retrieving context validating outputs and safely handling failure cases.
• Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using vector search and hybrid retrieval to ground responses in enterprise data and documentation.
• Develop ML components where appropriate (e.g. classification ranking anomaly detection) and integrate them with LLM-based systems for hybrid intelligence.
• Establish robust evaluation and quality gates for agents and LLM systems (golden datasets automated tests regression suites monitoring for drift/quality).
• Implement enterprise-grade governance: audit trails provenance/citations access control privacy handling and versioning (models/prompts/chains).
• Champion best practices for code quality testing automation and performance/cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers to elevate technical craftsmanship problem-solving and design thinking.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure technical solutions align with product goals and business outcomes.

Qualifications / Competencies:

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
• 3+ years delivering ML/AI systems to production with measurable outcomes and operational ownership.
• Demonstrable experience designing and building AI agents (agentic workflows) that:
  • perform multi-step reasoning and task execution
  • use tools/functions/APIs
  • manage state appropriately
  • and include guardrails validation and safe fallback behavior.
• Strong knowledge of agentic design patterns such as planning/execution loops routing/specialist agents retrieval + tool orchestration verification/reflection and human-in-the-loop approvals.
• Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g. LangChain or similar) including building reusable chains/agents and enforcing structured outputs.
• Hands-on experience with vector databases / retrieval systems (e.g. Pinecone Weaviate Milvus pgvector Elastic vector search etc.) including indexing chunking strategies and hybrid search.
• Strong Python for AI/ML development and automation; strong backend experience in Java and/or TypeScript (APIs services integration patterns).
• Solid applied ML and evaluation fundamentals: dataset construction precision/recall tradeoffs calibration and drift/quality monitoring.
• Enterprise mindset for security and controls: data minimization auditability traceability access control and operational resilience.
• Strong focus on clean architecture maintainability and production readiness.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills — able to guide teams and influence design direction.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes Docker and cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP).
• Observability experience: OpenTelemetry Prometheus/Grafana and AI/LLM telemetry (quality metrics latency cost tool-call traces).
• MLOps maturity: model registry reproducibility CI/CD for ML feature stores and governance workflows.
• Responsible AI experience: red-teaming prompt injection defenses content safety filters privacy-preserving patterns.
• Familiarity with enterprise workflow/case management patterns and building AI into operational processes.
• Interest in financial systems accounting or investment technology.
   

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.

Our hybrid work model

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.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed valued and supported with networks benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

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 [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

What We Do

As the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals including firefighters nurses teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven focused on clients and risk management and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions simplify complexity and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning wealth building or navigating market shifts we’re here to help clients invest more easily more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com

Why Work With Us

Without our people technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees clients shareholders and society alike.

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