Vice President, Application Engineer

BlackRock
New York, NY
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

We are seeking a VP of AI Platform Engineering to lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI capabilities that power technologist enablement, and next-generation platform services. This leader will combine deep technical expertise in modern AI systems with strong engineering execution and organizational leadership.

What You Will Do

Design scalable AI architecture leveraging LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and model optimization techniques. Lead the design and implementation of scalable AI platform capabilities used across the software development lifecycle.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Join a team that is revolutionizing the financial industry through innovation and technology. Work with advanced technologies and collaborate with outstanding engineers to influence the future of the financial industry.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building and operating production AI systems, including LLM-based workflows
  • Solid understanding of modern AI practices such as prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, and evaluation
  • Proven experience designing and delivering shared platforms or services at scale
  • Deep technical fluency in Java and Python with hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade AI and platform services
  • Experience designing APIs and operating services in a cloud environment
  • Experience working with distributed Cloud environments
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
  • Experience working in Agile development teams

Benefits

  • healthcare
  • leave benefits
  • retirement benefits
  • annual discretionary bonus
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • tuition reimbursement
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