# Technical Lead - AI Labs

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$170,000.00 - USD$220,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

BlackRock AI Labs is seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, set architectural direction, and drive key design decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

In this role, you will:

- Design, build, and operate production AI/ML systems across areas such as generative AI, intelligent agents, predictive modeling, and optimization.

- Develop reusable AI platforms, services, and infrastructure that accelerate experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and adoption across the firm.

- Translate emerging AI capabilities into robust, scalable solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

- Define evaluation, testing, and observability approaches for AI systems, including non-deterministic and agentic applications.

- Optimize AI systems and workloads for latency, throughput, compute efficiency, reliability, security, and cost.

- Partner with business, engineering, data, risk, and control teams to take solutions from concept through production deployment and ongoing operation.

- Establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and influence technical strategy across teams.

The minimum requirements for this position are:

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems.

- 6+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML, optimization, or other model-driven applications in production.

- Strong proficiency in Python and a track record of developing maintainable, well-tested production software.

- Strong SQL skills and experience working with data-intensive applications and large-scale datasets.

- Experience designing and building APIs, services, data pipelines, or distributed systems that support AI/ML applications.

- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical solutions from architecture and design through production deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.

- Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

Additional knowledge and experience we value includes:

- Experience collaborating with research teams in fast-moving environments, ideating quickly on research prototypes.

- Generative AI, large language models, AI agents, and architectures for production AI systems.

- Evaluation, experimentation, observability, debugging, and testing approaches for AI/ML systems, including non-deterministic and agentic applications.

- Machine learning and optimization frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.

- Distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, model serving, orchestration, data pipelines, and API design.

- Performance optimization across latency, throughput, compute utilization, reliability, scalability, and cost.

- Responsible AI, security, governance, and controls in enterprise or regulated environments.

- Experience with a systems- or performance-oriented programming language such as Rust, C++, C, Go, or Zig.

- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.

Salary range for this position is USD$170,000.00 - USD$220,000.00.

Benefits include healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AI/ML
- optimization
- machine learning
- data-intensive applications

### Nice to have
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- JAX
- Rust
- C++
- C
- Go
- Zig
- generative AI
- large language models
- AI agents

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