Senior Java/AI Engineer (Vice President)

BlackRock•New York, NY

3d•$162,000 - $215,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Java/AI Engineer (Vice President) at BlackRock, focusing on building innovative technology for financial markets. The position involves working on BlackRock's investment operating system, Aladdin, which combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, and operations tools. The Analytics and Compliance Engineering team specifically develops and maintains tools to ensure compliance with internal, self-imposed, and market regulator guidelines through high-throughput rule-based compliance engines. The role will lead the transformation of compliance technology using Artificial Intelligence, Agentic Systems, and Intelligent Automation, driving the adoption of AI-native engineering practices with LLMs, AI agents, knowledge retrieval systems, and advanced analytics.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative discipline.
Hands-on experience designing and deploying: Generative AI solutions, LLM-powered applications, Agentic AI workflows, RAG architectures, Vector search platforms, AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel), AI observability and evaluation frameworks.
Knowledge of prompt engineering, context engineering, model evaluation, and AI governance practices.
Over 5 years of hands-on experience in Java.
In-depth understanding of concurrent programming and designing high throughput, high availability, fault-tolerant distributed applications.
Expertise in building distributed applications using SQL and/or NoSQL technologies such as MSSQL, Flexible JSON document data store, Snowflake, or In-memory data stores for caching and real-time analytics.
Strong interest in distributed systems, infrastructure services, cloud technology and AI/ML techniques.
Prior experience with message broker technology such as Real-time distributed event streaming platform or gRPC.
Excellent analytical and software architecture design skills, with an emphasis on test-driven development.
Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.

Nice To Haves

Leverage Generative AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics to redefine how compliance solutions are designed, developed, and operated.
Identify high-impact opportunities where AI can improve developer productivity, regulatory insight generation, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
Thrive in a fast-paced environment solving complex regulatory, data, and engineering challenges at global scale.
Navigate ambiguity and rapidly evolving AI technologies while maintaining strong governance and operational excellence.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, foundation models, agent frameworks, RAG architectures, vector databases, and distributed systems to determine optimal solutions.
Balance innovation, explainability, risk, and compliance requirements when deploying AI-powered capabilities.
Partner closely with engineering, product management, compliance, legal, risk, and business stakeholders to deliver AI-enabled outcomes.
Foster an AI-learning culture focused on experimentation, responsible AI adoption, and continuous improvement.
Remain current on advances in Generative AI, AI Agents, LLM orchestration, cloud-native AI infrastructure, and machine learning techniques.
Champion modern AI engineering practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

Drive the strategic adoption of AI across compliance workflows, regulatory monitoring, reporting, and rule management capabilities.
Define and execute an AI transformation roadmap aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements.
Design highly available, fault-tolerant, cloud-native systems capable of supporting AI-driven workloads at enterprise scale.
Own projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies.
Significantly contribute to development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform.
Provide impact and expertise as a senior individual contributor in building various capabilities of the compliance system, including developing a next-gen compliance rule evaluation engine and compliance violation management at scale.
Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product.
Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating developers.