AI Platform/Product Engineer, Aladdin Engineering – Associate

Key Skills

Apache Kafka, Docker, Generative AI, Java Programming, JavaScript, Kubernetes-K8s, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding-NLU, Object-Oriented programming (OO languages), Python Programming

Job Description

At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $9 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and also being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

This role will be responsible for all aspects of software development, testing and ensuring compatibility with enterprise and solutions architecture by harnessing modern development technologies.

You will have the chance to define and develop new capabilities and engage with multiple development teams and partners across the Aladdin Product Group.

You are:

• Curious and eager to learn new things, with a healthy disrespect for the status quo
• Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and open to guidance from others; you make mistakes, but learn from them
• Passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do
• Data-focused, with an eye for the details that matter to address the problem

We are:

• Passionate about building reliable software and scaling technology to meet the needs of tomorrow
• Building solutions for both BlackRock and over 100 organizations who use our technology
• Developing with Java, Python, Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and other technologies
• Committed to open source and giving back to the community
• Writing testable software every day with a focus on incremental innovation

The team is looking for an ambitious hands-on software developer to work on an exciting strategic product to expand our Aladdin Platform. Working with a distributed team, you will be part of an outstanding group of engineers setting and evolving the technology direction for our internal developer systems and SDLC.

As a key member of our engineering team, you will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward to help craft the technical solutions. You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills and be comfortable communicating your ideas to inquisitive senior leaders.

This position is for an AI Platform/Product Engineer within the Aladdin Risk and Investment Oversight team and will utilize industry-standard technologies, such as Spring, GIT/ADO, Solr, Cassandra and more. Aladdin Risk and Investment Oversight is a team responsible for technology utilized by Researchers, Portfolio Managers, Traders, Risk Managers, and Investment Operations.

More specifically the role is in the team that works alongside Aladdin Engineering and Aladdin Business groups, building AI-powered technology services and solutions with the objective of exploring, developing, testing, deploying, enhancing, and maintaining machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities integrated with the Aladdin Investment Management Platform. The role will also afford the chance to learn about the financial industry, specifically the sophisticated world of risk management, valuations, and operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Help design and build the next generation of world’s best investment management technology platform for managing various Investment lifecycle processes and investment research
• Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
• Understand and refine business and functional requirements and convert them into scalable technical design.
• Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level two production support

Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area with 4 – 7 years of proven experience
• Demonstrable experience in working with Generative AI models, with a deep understanding of their capabilities, prompting strategies, model performance, and inherent limitations
• Strong statistical foundation, with in-depth knowledge of supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised machine learning models, with a particular focus on NLP/NLU
• Good hands-on object-oriented programming experience in Java, JavaScript and Python
• Experience designing and building APIs and Microservices
• Strong experience with Open-Source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, JUnit, etc.)
• Experience with relational database and NoSQL Database (e.g. Apache Cassandra)
• Experience of working in Agile Development Team

Nice to have:

• Experience with cloud native development (Kubernetes, Docker) and Cloud Platform like Microsoft Azure
• Open source publish-subscribe frameworks like Apache Kafka
• Distributing Computing Technologies like Apache Ignite

For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $132,500 – $157,500. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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.