AI Platform & Application Engineer Vice President

Blackrock

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$162,000–$215,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 30, 2026

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Similar $184k
This role $188k
$132k most similar roles pay here $227k

This role pays more than 61% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$217,400 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $188k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

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About Blackrock

BlackRock is the world''s largest asset management firm, providing investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and retail clients through its Aladdin technology platform. Industry: Asset Management & Financial Services

Blackrock currently has 33 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $162,000–$215,000 across 31 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AI Platform & Application Engineer Vice President

The AI Platform & Application Engineer - Vice President joins the Platform Engineering division to lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI capabilities. This role focuses on reimagining software development workflows by integrating intelligent systems into the engineering ecosystem. You will build scalable AI architecture utilizing LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and model optimization while establishing evaluation frameworks for hallucination control and precision. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading buy versus build decisions, managing technical risks, and mentoring a team of engineers to ensure production-ready, compliant solutions. The role requires deep technical fluency in Java and Python, experience with distributed cloud environments, and proficiency in API design. This position addresses the challenge of embedding safe, secure AI into complex financial technology infrastructure to improve developer enablement and large-scale modernization across multiple business domains.

What you'll do

  • Design scalable AI architecture using LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and model optimization techniques.
  • Establish evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, hallucination control, and precision/recall trade-offs.
  • Lead the design and implementation of AI platform capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
  • Make buy vs. build decisions by evaluating third-party solutions against internal capabilities.
  • Identify technical risks and dependencies early to develop mitigation and escalation plans.
  • Translate complex AI capabilities into clear business values for senior stakeholders.
  • Manage, coach, and mentor a team of engineers and senior individual contributors.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building and operating production AI systems including LLM-based workflows.
  • Understanding of modern AI practices such as prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering shared platforms or services at scale.
  • Technical fluency in Java and Python for building scalable, production-grade AI and platform services.
  • Experience designing APIs and operating services in distributed cloud environments.
  • Strong communication skills to collaborate across teams and translate complex capabilities into business value.
  • Experience working in Agile development teams.
  • Prior experience in developer productivity, platform engineering, or people management (preferred); familiarity with enterprise governance for AI (preferred).

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