BlackRock
Senior Java/AI Engineer (Vice President)
New York, NY · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
JavaDistributed SystemsSQLNoSQLSnowflakeVector DatabasesMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationA/B TestingAgileCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Do you like working at the speed of a startup, but want to solve some of the world's most complex problems?
- Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?
- At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve complex problems.
Responsibilities
- Drive the strategic adoption of AI across compliance workflows, regulatory monitoring, reporting, and rule management capabilities.
- Design highly available, fault-tolerant, cloud-native systems capable of supporting AI-driven workloads at enterprise scale.
- Own projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies.
- Provide impact and expertise as a senior individual contributor in building various capabilities of the compliance system, including developing a next-gen compliance rule evaluation engine and compliance violation management at scale.
- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
- support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
- At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work - enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients.
- To support you, we've provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, context engineering, model evaluation, and AI governance practices
- Over 5 years of hands-on experience in Java.
- Prior experience with message broker technology such as Real-time distributed event streaming platform or gRPC.
- 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.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying:
- Generative AI solutions
- LLM-powered applications
- Agentic AI workflows
- RAG architectures
- Vector search platforms
- AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel)
- AI observability and evaluation frameworks
- In-depth understanding of concurrent programming and designing high throughput, high availability, fault-tolerant distributed applications.
- Expertise in building distributed applications using SQL and/or NoSQL technologies such as MSSQL, Flexible JSON document data store, Snowflake, or In-memory data stores for caching and real-time analytics.
Skills
- What is Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering (AE)?
- Aladdin is used both internally and externally by many financial institutions.
- This includes ensuring that clients follow guidelines established internally, by themselves, and by the market regulators.
Compensation
- With over USD $14+ trillion of assets we have an exceptional responsibility: our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial wellbeing.
Benefits
- Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses.
- Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating developers.
- 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.
- As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
Company info
- At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
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