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AI Engineering – Associate

AI Engineering – Associate

CompanyBlackRock
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$132500 – $162000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

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.