Vice President, AI Platform Application Engineer

VP of AI Platform Engineering leading design and delivery of enterprise AI capabilities; build scalable AI architecture leveraging LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and model optimization; establish evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, hallucination control, and precision/recall trade-offs; lead the design and implementation of scalable AI platform capabilities across the software development lifecycle; partner with product and security to ensure AI solutions are safe, compliant, and production-ready; drive delivery by breaking down complex problems into clear plans; lead buy vs. build decisions and evaluate third-party solutions; identify risks early and coordinate across multiple engineering teams and time zones; translate complex AI capabilities into clear business value and communicate progress, trade-offs, and risks to senior stakeholders; lead and develop a team of engineers and senior ICs with coaching and mentorship; foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement; experience with production AI systems including LLM-based workflows; expertise in prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, evaluation; track record of designing platforms/services at scale; strong Java and Python; cloud services; distributed environments; Agile; collaboration across teams; experience in developer productivity/platform initiatives; prior people-management experience; familiarity with enterprise governance, security, and risk for AI systems; hybrid work model with in-office presence in NYC; BlackRock as a leading global investment manager; equal opportunity employer.