Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer, Director

At BlackRock technology is fundamental to how we serve clients andoperateatscale. Aladdinour industryleading endtoend investment management platformembodies this by combining deep financial expertise with advanced data and AI capabilities.

We are seeking aDirector of AI Platform / Engineeringto providetechnical and strategic leadershipwithin theAladdin AI Engineering organization. In this role you will be responsible for shaping the direction of Aladdins AI platform leading highimpact engineering initiatives and ensuring the delivery of scalable reliable and responsible AI solutions across investment operations and data science workflows.

This role requires a blend ofhandson technical deptharchitectural leadership andpeople and delivery leadership. You will work closely with senior engineering leaders product managers data scientists and business stakeholders to translate AI strategy into productiongrade platforms and services.

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Architectural Leadership

• Set thetechnical vision and architecturefor Aladdins AI platform including LLMpowered and agentic AI systems.

• Lead the design and evolution ofscalable AI/ML platform services APIs and microservices that support Aladdins global user base.

• Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems ensuring reliability scalability security and operational excellence.

• Establish and enforceengineering standards design patterns and best practicesacross AI platform teams.

• Ensure AI solutions are built with strong considerations forgovernance observability resilience and responsible AI.

Delivery & Execution

• Own delivery outcomes for multiple concurrent initiatives balancing nearterm execution with longterm 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.

People & Organizational Leadership

• 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.

Stakeholder & CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Partner closely with platform product data science and infrastructure leaders.

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior leadership and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Represent Aladdin AI Engineering in crossorganizational initiatives and governance forums.

Required Qualifications

AI / MLSpecific Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams that buildAIdriven platforms and applications including solutionsleveraginglarge language models (LLMs)AI Agentsagenttoolsand agent skills.

• Strong handson familiarity withLLM frameworkssuch asLangChainLlamaIndex Semantic Kernel or equivalent.

• Experience with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)or comparable agent frameworks including designing orchestrating and operating agentbased systems in production.

• Deep understanding ofagentic AI architectures including multiagent coordination tool invocation and stateful reasoning workflows.

• Experience withprompt engineering and prompt tuningat scale including performance reliability and safety optimization.

• Strong understanding ofML model evaluation monitoring and behavioral drift management in production systems.

• Experience integratingvector databases(e.g.Faiss Chroma) into AI system architectures.

• Solid understanding ofMLOpspractices including model lifecycle management deployment pipelines and observability.

• Experience leveragingAInativecode editors and IDEs (e.g.CopilotenabledIDEsagentassisteddevelopment environments or similarAIaugmentedtooling) to improve developer productivity code quality and delivery velocity.

• Experienceestablishingbest practices and guardrails for the responsible use ofAInativedevelopment tools including considerations for security IP protection compliance and code quality.

• Ability to evaluate and guideadoptionof emergingAIpowereddeveloper tools balancing innovation with maintainability governance and platform standards.

• Strong awareness ofresponsible AI principles governance and risk management when deploying AI systems in regulated environments.

Why BlackRock

Joining BlackRock means becoming part of a firm that oversees more than$14 trillionin assetsandoperatesat the intersection of finance and technology. As a Director in Aladdin AI Engineering you will play a critical role in shaping the future of AIpowered investment management atglobalscale.