BlackRock
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer, Vice President - AI Labs
$170K–$220K
Atlanta, GA · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering; 6+ years building and deploying AI/ML, optimization, or other model-driven applications in production.
About the job
Provides technical leadership and builds, deploys, and operates scalable production AI/ML systems and platforms across BlackRock.
What you'll do
- Set architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards.
- Build and operate production AI/ML systems, reusable platforms, and infrastructure; define evaluation, testing, and observability approaches.
- Partner across teams to take solutions from concept to production and optimize them for performance, reliability, security, and cost.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating complex production systems.
- 6+ years building and deploying AI/ML, optimization, or other model-driven applications in production.
- Strong proficiency in Python, strong SQL skills, and experience with data-intensive applications and large-scale datasets.
- Experience building APIs, services, data pipelines, or distributed systems for AI/ML; containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Experience with generative AI, large language models, AI agents, and production AI architectures.
- Experience with machine learning and optimization frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
Pay
USD$170,000.00 - USD$220,000.00 base salary (Atlanta, GA); annual discretionary bonus amount not specified.
Tools
Python, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, scikit-learn
AI focus
Build and operate production generative AI, intelligent-agent, predictive modeling, optimization, and platform solutions; develop evaluation, testing, and observability for AI systems.
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