AssociateVice President, AI Infrastructure Engineer

At BlackRock technology underpins everything we do. AI is a core strategic priority for the firm embedded across Aladdin and our investment client and operational platforms. We are seeking anAI Infrastructure Engineerto help build andoperatethe foundational infrastructure that enables AI systems to scale safely securely and reliably across the enterprise.

This role sits within AladdinPlatformEngineering and focuses on theinfrastructure and platform servicesto support machine learning models large language models (LLMs) and emerging AI capabilities in production. The successful candidate will work closely with AI Engineers Data Scientists Platform Engineers Security and Product partners to deliver resilientcloud nativeAI platforms in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build andoperateAIfocused infrastructure platformssupporting model development training evaluation and inference.

• Engineer scalable reliable and securecloudnative servicesto support AI workloads across AWS Azure and hybrid environments.

• Partner with AI Engineering and Data Science teams to improvedeveloper experience performance and operational stability of AI systems.

• Enable production deployment ofML models and LLMswithin governed enterprise environments aligned with firmwide risk and compliance standards.

• Implement and maintaininfrastructure as codeand automation to ensure repeatable auditable platform provisioning.

• Build andoperateobservability monitoring and alertingsolutions for AI platforms ensuring availability performance and cost transparency.

• Collaborate with Security and Risk partners to integrateidentity access controls data protection and governanceinto AI infrastructure.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards for AI platforms across Aladdin.

• Participate in on-callrotations and operational support ascallrotations and operational support asfor critical platforms.

• Continuously evaluate emerging AI infrastructure technologies and apply them pragmatically within BlackRocks enterprise context.

Qualifications

• Strong experience incloud infrastructure platform engineering or systems engineeringroles.

• 4 hands-onexpertisewithAWS and/or Azureand/or GCP includingAzure ML Azure Foundry AWS Bedrock GoogleVertex as well ascloudcompute networking storage and security services.

• Understanding of ML platform operations and governance concepts including model deployment strategieslifecycle managementmonitoring/observability andDisaster Recovery

• Experience supportingLLMs generative AI platforms or model serving infrastructure.

• Experience supporting AI and machine learning workloadswith exposure to managed compute for model training and finetuning experimentation over large datasets andendtoendMLOpspipelineflowincluding data ingestion trainingvalidationanddeployment.

• ProficiencywithInfrastructure as Codeascodetools (e.g. Terraform ARM/Bicep CloudFormation).

• Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g.Python Bash or similar).

• Experience building andoperatingcontainerized and Kubernetesbasedbasedplatforms.

• Solid understanding ofreliability scalability observability and operational best practices.

• Ability to work effectively incross functionalteams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Preferred

• Familiarity withGPU oraccelerator basedinfrastructure.

• Experience working infinancial services or other highly regulated industries.

• Familiarity withmulticloudarchitecturesand enterprise governance requirements.