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AI Engineering – Associate
Company | BlackRock |
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Location | New York, NY, USA |
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Salary | $132500 – $162000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area with 4-7 years of proven experience, or equivalent experience, for Associate positions and 8-12 years, or equivalent experience, for Vice President or Technical Architect positions.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in object-oriented programming with Java and Python.
- Experience building applications using LLM frameworks such as LangChain, Llama Index, and Semantic Kernel.
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks like Kafka.
- Proficiency in designing and building scalable APIs and Microservices.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure (*Preferred*), AWS, or GCP.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with relational databases and NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra.
- Experience working in Agile development teams.
- Excellent collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the next generation of the world’s best investment management technology platform, focusing on managing various investment lifecycle processes and investment research.
- Leverage existing AI/ML infrastructure to develop new platform services.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to implement comprehensive AI/ML-based solutions from start to finish.
- Work with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
- Refine business and functional requirements and translate them into scalable technical designs.
- Apply quality software engineering practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Conduct code reviews, perform unit, regression, and user acceptance testing, and provide level two production support to ensure resilience and stability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ML model training and fine-tuning.
- Understanding of prompt engineering and prompt tuning.
- Knowledge of ML model evaluation to ensure consistent performance with changing data.
- Familiarity with MLOps and ML model lifecycle pipelines.