Job Description

Salary: $190,000 - 240,000 per year Requirements:

• We require 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial work designing, building, and running complex production systems.
• We require 4+ years of experience developing and deploying AI/ML, optimization, or other model-driven applications in production.
• We require strong Python skills and a history of producing maintainable, well-tested software.
• We require strong SQL expertise and experience with data-heavy applications and large datasets.
• We require experience designing and building APIs, services, data pipelines, or distributed systems that support AI/ML applications.
• We require experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• We require proven ability to lead complex technical solutions from architecture and design through deployment, operations, and ongoing improvement.
• We require strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
• We value experience working with research teams in fast-paced environments and rapidly developing ideas from research prototypes.
• We value experience with generative AI, large language models, AI agents, and production AI architectures.
• We value knowledge of evaluation, experimentation, observability, debugging, and testing methods for AI/ML systems, including non-deterministic and agentic applications.
• We value experience with machine learning and optimization frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• We value experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, model serving, orchestration, data pipelines, and API design.
• We value performance tuning across latency, throughput, compute utilization, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• We value experience with responsible AI, security, governance, and controls in enterprise or regulated environments.
• We value experience with systems- or performance-oriented languages such as Rust, C++, C, Go, or Zig.
• We value experience in financial services or another regulated industry.

• We provide technical leadership, set architectural direction, and guide key design decisions across multidisciplinary teams.
• We design, build, and operate production AI/ML systems across generative AI, intelligent agents, predictive modeling, and optimization.
• We develop reusable AI platforms, services, and infrastructure that speed up experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and adoption across the firm.
• We turn emerging AI capabilities into robust, scalable solutions that create measurable business impact.
• We define evaluation, testing, and observability approaches for AI systems, including non-deterministic and agentic applications.
• We optimize AI systems and workloads for latency, throughput, compute efficiency, reliability, security, and cost.
• We partner with business, engineering, data, risk, and control teams to move solutions from concept into production and keep them running effectively.
• We establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and shape technical strategy across teams.

• AI
• AI Agents
• API
• Cloud
• Docker
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Machine Learning
• Model Serving
• PyTorch
• Python
• Rust
• SQL
• Security
• TensorFlow

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Hackajob is partnering with BlackRock to connect exceptional professionals with this opportunity. You would join BlackRock AI Labs, the firms advanced AI science and engineering organization, where we apply generative AI, machine learning, optimization, and statistics to high-priority initiatives across investments, client experiences, operations, risk management, and product innovation. Our team works across New York, Edinburgh, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Seattle, and we operate as a hybrid group of scientists and engineers focused on building production-ready solutions that deliver real business value. We offer a salary range of USD$190,000.00 to USD$240,000.00 for New York, plus annual discretionary bonus eligibility, healthcare, leave benefits, retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off. We work in a hybrid model, with employees currently expected in the office at least four days per week and the option to work from home one day weekly. BlackRock is committed to a collaborative, apprenticeship-driven culture, thoughtful AI use in hiring, equal opportunity employment, and full inclusion for qualified individuals.

last updated 41 week of 2026

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