AI / ML Engineer

$157,500 - $214,500/Yr

BlackRock - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - New York, NY

5,001-10,000 employees

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

About the position

The role at BlackRock involves designing and delivering secure and scalable solutions to facilitate the rapid deployment of machine learning products in production environments. The position requires continuous improvement of existing tools and services while maintaining close collaboration with data scientists and researchers. The successful candidate will be responsible for writing maintainable code, providing ongoing support for internal AI tools, advising on product architecture, and participating in agile team processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure and scalable solutions for machine learning products.
• Continuously improve existing products, tools, and services.
• Write quality maintainable code that is tested and fit for purpose.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support for internal AI tools and services.
• Advise data scientists on product architecture and system design.
• Participate in team agile processes and contribute to team culture.

Requirements

• Experience shipping code to production environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience building cloud native applications.
• Great problem-solving and communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• DevOps automation and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Networking and security protocols, load balancers, API Gateways.
• ETL tooling and workflow engines (e.g., Spark, Airflow).
• Accelerated compute libraries and hardware (e.g., pytorch, NVIDIA GPUs).
• Data modeling and strategies for data validation at scale.
• Performance tuning on RDBMS or Big Data tools.
• Telemetry and related tools (metrics, event logging).
• Ability to traverse full stack.

Benefits

• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)