About this role
Job title: AI Infrastructure Engineer
Job description
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 endtoend MLOps pipeline flow including data ingestion, training, validation and deployment.