This role pays less than
63%
of similar roles. Most pay
$149,500–$241,750
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$168k
versus about
$196k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
81 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$147,500–$195,000
across 77 roles with salary data.
BlackRock Investment Institute, AI Solutions, Research Associate joins the BlackRock Investment Institute team to drive an AI-first transformation of research and content-production workflows. This role serves as a bridge between investment professionals and technology partners to design, prototype, and deploy agentic systems, automated workflows, and AI infrastructure. The individual will build solutions for capital market assumptions, tactical asset allocation, and macro research while managing the transition toward an automated operating model. Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into technical specifications, evaluating emerging models, and productionizing prototypes using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector databases. Required skills include proficiency in Python, prompt engineering, and workflow orchestration platforms. The role addresses the challenge of scaling investment research through AI-native processes while ensuring governance, safety, and high-quality output across complex financial market data and content creation tasks.
Transformer
PyTorch
JAX
Machine Learning
Distributed Training
Quantitative Trading
Data Pipelines
Signal Research
Market Microstructure
Portfolio Construction
Risk Management
Benchmarking
Python
AWS
Machine Learning
Spark
SQL
H2O
Conda
Scala
R
Deep Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Time Series
Clustering
Classification
Big Data
Statistical Modeling