AI Platform & Application Engineer - Vice President

41 minutes agoLeadSalary: 162K - 215KNew York, USAHybridAiJobs by BlackRock

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, operating the IBIT bitcoin ETF and the BUIDL tokenized fund.

New York, NY, USA
About BlackRock

BlackRock (blackrock.com) is the world’s largest asset manager, with production digital-asset businesses: the IBIT spot bitcoin ETF, the BUIDL tokenized money-market fund (with Securitize), and tokenization initiatives.

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About the Role

You will lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI capabilities across the software development lifecycle. You will design scalable AI architecture using LLMs, RAG and fine-tuning, establish evaluation frameworks, make buy-vs-build decisions, partner with product and security teams, and lead and mentor a team of engineers.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building and operating production AI systems, including LLM-based workflows
  • Understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning and evaluation
  • Experience designing and delivering shared platforms or services at scale
  • Deep technical fluency in Java and Python
  • Experience designing APIs and operating services in a cloud environment
  • Experience with distributed cloud environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience working in Agile teams

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable AI architecture leveraging LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning and model optimization
  • Establish evaluation frameworks for model quality and hallucination control
  • Lead design and implementation of scalable AI platform capabilities
  • Partner with product and security teams to ensure safe, compliant, production-ready AI
  • Break down complex problems into clear plans and milestones
  • Lead buy vs. build decisions
  • Identify technical risks and dependencies early
  • Coordinate across engineering teams and time zones
  • Communicate progress, trade-offs and risks to senior stakeholders
  • Lead and mentor engineers and senior ICs
  • Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
  • Support the growth of emerging leaders

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus
  • Healthcare
  • Leave benefits
  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible Time Off