Associate/Vice President, AI Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

At BlackRock, technology underpins everything we do. AI is a core strategic priority for the firm, embedded across Aladdin and our investment, client, and operational platforms. We are seeking an AI Infrastructure Engineer to help build and operate the foundational infrastructure that enables AI systems to scale safely, securely, and reliably across the enterprise. This role sits within Aladdin Platform Engineering and focuses on the infrastructure and platform services required to support machine learning models, large language models (LLMs), and emerging AI capabilities in production. The successful candidate will work closely with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Platform Engineers, Security, and Product partners to deliver resilient, cloud native AI platforms in a highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AI focused infrastructure platforms supporting model development, training, evaluation, and inference.
• Engineer scalable, reliable, and secure cloud native services to support AI workloads across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Partner with AI Engineering and Data Science teams to improve developer experience, performance, and operational stability of AI systems.
• Enable production deployment of ML models and LLMs within governed enterprise environments, aligned with firmwide risk and compliance standards.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code and automation to ensure repeatable, auditable platform provisioning.
• Build and operate observability, monitoring, and alerting solutions for AI platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and cost transparency.
• Collaborate with Security and Risk partners to integrate identity, access controls, data protection, and governance into AI infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical standards for AI platforms across Aladdin.
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational support as required for critical platforms.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI infrastructure technologies and apply them pragmatically within BlackRock's enterprise context.

Qualifications Required:

• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems engineering roles.
• 4+ hands-on expertise with AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP, including Azure ML, Azure Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, as well as cloud compute, networking, storage, and security services.
• Understanding of ML platform operations and governance concepts, including model deployment strategies, lifecycle management, monitoring/observability, and Disaster Recovery.
• Experience supporting LLMs, generative AI platforms, or model serving infrastructure.
• Experience supporting AI and machine learning workloads, with exposure to managed compute for model training and finetuning, experimentation over large datasets, and end-to-end MLOps pipeline flow including data ingestion, training, validation and deployment.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation).
• Strong programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar).
• Experience building and operating containerized and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Solid understanding of reliability, scalability, observability, and operational best practices.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with GPU or accelerator based infrastructure.
• Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with multicloud architectures and enterprise governance requirements.

Our Benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Hybrid Work Model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.