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BlackRock
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer, Director
BlackRock
New York•Hybrid•10-13 Yrs•2 hours ago
Job description
Hybrid
Overview
We are seeking a Director of AI Platform / Engineering to provide technical and strategic leadership within the Aladdin AI Engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision and architecture for Aladdin’s AI platform, including LLM‑powered and agentic AI systems.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable AI/ML platform services, APIs, and microservices that support Aladdin’s global user base.
- Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across AI platform teams.
- Ensure AI solutions are built with strong considerations for governance, observability, resilience, and responsible AI.
- Own delivery outcomes for multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing near‑term execution with long‑term platform evolution.
- Partner with product management to define roadmaps, prioritize investments, and align execution with business outcomes.
- Oversee production readiness, including design reviews, risk assessments, release management, and operational support.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering workflows, quality, and delivery predictability.
- Lead, mentor, and develop senior engineers, technical leads, and managers.
- Build a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, rigor, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
- Act as a senior technical voice across leadership forums and architectural reviews.
- Partner closely with platform, product, data science, and infrastructure leaders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior leadership and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Represent Aladdin AI Engineering in cross‑organizational initiatives and governance forums.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading teams that build AI‑driven platforms and applications, including solutions leveraging large language models (LLMs), AI Agents, agent tools and agent skills.
- Strong hands‑on familiarity with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent.
- Deep understanding of agentic AI architectures, including multi‑agent coordination, tool invocation, and stateful reasoning workflows.
- Strong understanding of ML model evaluation, monitoring, and behavioral drift management in production systems.
- Solid understanding of MLOps practices, including model lifecycle management, deployment pipelines, and observability.
- Ability to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging AIpowered developer tools, balancing innovation with maintainability, governance, and platform standards.
- Strong awareness of responsible AI principles, governance, and risk management when deploying AI systems in regulated environments.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership of large‑scale, distributed systems.
- Proven track record of technical leadership, owning platform architecture and multi‑team delivery.
- Deep expertise in object‑oriented programming, particularly Java and Python.
- Strong experience designing and operating scalable APIs, microservices, and distributed systems in production.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable).
- Strong understanding of event‑driven architectures, messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), and asynchronous processing.
- Hands‑on experience with relational and NoSQL datastores, including Cassandra.
- Strong grasp of Agile delivery models, SDLC governance, and operational excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and senior leadership.