Associate, Application Engineer

BlackRock•New York, NY

23h•$132,500 - $162,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is focused on designing, developing, and delivering technical solutions, including AI-based models, to help the organization scale. The position involves working with stakeholders to identify opportunities for technology to improve business processes, making autonomous decisions on suitable solutions, and testing/validating AI models for accuracy and alignment with strategic goals. The role also plays a part in growing the core offering of the Aladdin Post Trade platforms, driving engagement with partners to establish business requirements, and building relationships with internal technology teams to ensure familiarity with potential AI solutions and accountability for business benefits.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in a Developer role.
Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Java, Python).
Strong SQL and database knowledge.
Understanding of relational databases, columnar stores, data modelling, data validation, or performance tuning.
Understanding of APIs, networking, security, authentication, authorisation, load balancers, or API gateways.
Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.
Understanding of observability and production support practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident follow-up.
The ability to manage projects from inception to completion, ensuring that they are delivered on time and within time estimates.
Identification of risk or gaps in a process and implementing plans to resolve using technical solutions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English) to convey sophisticated concepts simply and clearly.
A deep understanding of the organization’s business processes, goals, and objectives.

Nice To Haves

Exposure in developing and implementing AI-based solutions preferred.
Familiarity with AI coding assistants or other modern developer productivity tools.
Front-end or full-stack development where useful for delivering internal tools or user-facing workflows.
Understanding of machine learning models, including large language models (LLMs) and other neural networks.
Understanding of machine learning or generative AI product lifecycles, including model serving, evaluation, monitoring, experimentation, or fine-tuning.
Familiarity with NLP techniques and tools such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and topic modeling.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, or DevOps practices.
Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in LLMs and machine learning, and identify opportunities to apply them to the organization’s business processes.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver technical solutions, including AI-based models, that will help the organization scale.
Work with stakeholders to identify areas where technology can be leveraged to improve business processes.
Make autonomous decisions on which solutions best fit the business problem presented.
Test and validate AI models to ensure that they are accurate and aligned with the organization’s strategic goals.
Play a key role in growing the core offering of the Aladdin Post Trade platforms.
Drive engagement with partners to ensure that proper business requirements are established.
Build relationships with other internal technology teams to ensure familiarity with all potential AI-based solutions while also holding them accountable for capturing and measuring business benefits.