BlackRock
Rust, AI Engineer, Director
$220K–$275K
New York, NY · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience in software and platform engineering.
- Education
- B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area.
About the job
Design, build, and maintain a scalable AI platform and cloud-native infrastructure for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment technology.
What you'll do
- Develop and operate AI platform services, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud infrastructure abstractions.
- Build automated pipelines for training, testing, and deploying machine-learning models, while ensuring platform security, compliance, performance, and reliability.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical designs and apply software engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
What they ask for
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area.
- 10+ years of experience in software and platform engineering.
- Proficiency designing and building scalable APIs and microservices; strong Kubernetes proficiency, including Helm charts, Kustomize, and CRDs.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; expertise in Docker or containerd; proficiency in Rust and C++.
Nice to have
- Building SDKs or client libraries; knowledge of Spark or Dask.
- Understanding GPU orchestration and optimization in Kubernetes; familiarity with MLOps, model training or fine-tuning, Kafka, or Cassandra.
Pay
USD$220,000.00 - USD$275,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Rust, C++, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Build and operate AI platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes deployment of AI models and automated machine-learning training, testing, and deployment pipelines; preferred experience includes model training and fine-tuning.
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