BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with US$11.5 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock has 70 offices in 30 countries, and clients in 100 countries.
2025 Quantitative Masters Internship Program – AMERS
About the job
Job Description
This nine-week internship is designed for specialized master’s students in quantitative-disciplined curriculums to gain insights into the day-to-day life of an Associate.
Over the course of your time with us, you’ll have real-world responsibilities in addition to social and networking events to help you start building your network of future colleagues. Your Quantitative Master’s Summer Internship experience begins with an orientation in which you’ll learn about BlackRock – our mission, culture, principles and purpose. You’ll hear from senior business leaders, receive formal training on the fundamentals of Investment Management and learn how the firm comes together to serve clients in our One BlackRock approach.
You’ll then join your team, where you’ll be working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry. You’ll develop subject-matter expertise through on-the-job learning and classroom sessions. You bring the potential, open mind and desire to learn, and we’ll provide the opportunities and tools to stretch and develop you.
Who Can Apply
Master’s students who will graduate between September 2025 and July 2026. Ideal candidates should be enrolled in Master’s programs focused on analytics, computational finance, financial engineering, mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines with relevant pre-masters work experience.
Important
Candidates can apply for only one program (e.g., Quantitative Master’s Internship Program or Summer Internship Program) and up to two functions within that program (e.g., Investment Research and Analytics & Modeling). You must apply for both opportunities using the same program application.
If you withdraw your application, you cannot submit another application for this program this year.
Next Steps
Once you submit your application, you will receive an email to complete a pre-interview assessment. You have up to five days to submit your pre-interview assessment; if you fail to do so, your application will be automatically withdrawn.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer in compliance with the U.S. federal contractor program. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal and the pay transparency statement.
BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law.
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com with your request. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
For California state and New York City only: The salary ranges for these positions are below. Please note, salary rates for a role are determined by department or team within a Business Area, as well as location of the role.
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Business Area
Salary Range (semi-monthly rate)
Client & Product Functions
$6,500 – $8,000
Corporate & Strategic Functions
$6,500 – $8,000
Investment
$6,500 – $8,000
Operations
$6,500 – $8,000
Technology
$6,500 – $8,000
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For Washington state only: The salary ranges for these positions are below. Please note, salary rates for a role are determined by department or team within a Business Area, as well as location of the role.
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Business Area
Salary Range (semi-monthly rate)
Client & Product Functions
$5,500 – $7,000
Corporate & Strategic Functions
$5,500 – $7,000
Investment
$5,500 – $7,000
Operations
$5,500 – $7,000
Technology
$5,500 – $7,000
Vice President Financial Markets Advisory, Markets & Platform Analytics
Responsibilities
The job focuses on the development and usage of analytical platforms and infrastructure, including frequently BlackRock proprietary technology, to design, quality control, and deliver analyses to FMA clients. Candidates should have an understanding of capital markets and be able to apply creative solutions to solve client objectives and challenges. The role will draw upon expertise with risk systems and tools.
A meticulous focus on robustness and scalability is crucial to help clients and foster business growth. The ideal applicant will craft solutions to address a variety of client objectives, rooted in a clear understanding of the client and business context driving client opportunities and challenges. The role involves regular interaction and engagement with partner teams across the firm.
Team members gain exposure to senior internal and external leaders on a range of complex capital markets topics and participate in client presentations and pitches. We work in a fast-paced environment frequently subject to tight timeframes and focus on providing meaningful impact to our clients.
Our work involves staying abreast of capital market and broader financial institutions trends. Understanding the constantly evolving landscape of relevant technological tools and solutions is also important to success.
FMA team members frequently collaborate between the US, EMEA, and APAC offices.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of proven experience in the financial services industry
- Strong Python programming skills and knowledge of Unix environment required; additional experience with other programming languages is a plus
- Strong experience with fixed income analytics
- Experience using and / or developing financial analytical systems / tools; exposure to / understanding of Aladdin
- Familiarity with process implementation and production
- Understanding of fundamental software design principles, development standards, and associated tools
- Degree in a computer science, engineering, or similar field
For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $147,500 – $209,500. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.
Senior User Experience Designer, Vice President
Job background
We are looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our digital team. This role will require you to span from strategy to launch, bringing a talent for simple and clear design, systems thinking, and seamless user experiences to help our professional clients accomplish their goals while keeping the focus on business objectives.
Candidates for this role must possess strong organizational skills with relevant user experience expertise, preferably in a regulated industry. The ability to progress things independently as well as working in a team environment is crucial, while being able to solve problems quickly and maintain creativity in a fast-paced environment. You’ll be a customer-first advocate who is a confident communicator, comfortable working through ambiguity, and not easily ruffled.
Primary Responsibilities
- Transform creative vision, business opportunities, user research and data into intuitive experiences that are simple to use.
- Implement UX methodologies to effectively create, deliver and govern design for a consistent user experience.
- Continuously craft innovative approaches to visualize content and data, and communicate information that facilitates understanding of sophisticated financial concepts.
- Expertly build wireframes, site maps, user journeys; detailing work including annotations, prototypes, functional specifications.
- Consistently introduce new insights that increase team efficiency and add value.
- Collaborate with key project team members, including product managers and technology leads to deliver end-to-end solutions, and ensure projects are well defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
Qualifications
- 7+ years’ sustained professional experience in digital design, as a practicing designer in either product related or agency environments designing consumer facing websites.
- Strong portfolio of professional work with clear demonstration of your role and contributions on each project.
- Skilled in visualizing and prototyping concepts to varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and validate ideas.
- Familiarity with content management systems used often for web design and development, and ability to design within a content management environment.
- Effectively act on internal feedback, testing results to iterate and deliver more value for our user and business.
- Ability to think multiple steps ahead, anticipate what’s needed, and take actions.
- Ability to influence senior/executive cross-functional partners and resolve challenges.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong critical thinking ability — able to connect the dots / big picture.
- Strong work ethic and time management skills with dedication to meeting or exceeding expectations despite contending priorities.
Back-End Engineer, ETF Engineering, Associate
Team Overview
Our ETF development team is part of the Aladdin Engineering group. We manage a software platform that oversees the global iShares investment process. Together, we develop cutting-edge technology that transforms the interaction between information, people, and technology for global investment firms. Our tools manage trillions in assets and support millions of financial instruments. We play a crucial role in the growth of the primary markets business by bringing together multiple Market Makers, Authorized Participants, Issuers, and Providers, enhancing transparency, and reducing market frictions.
Being a Member Of Aladdin Engineering, You Will Be
Tenacious: Work in a fast paced and highly complex environment
Creative thinker: Analyze multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way.
Great teammate: Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
Fast learner: Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deliver, and maintain applications with focus on high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software.
- Demonstrate technical leadership of software design & architecture to support strategic product roadmap,
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a multi-office, multi-country environment to define, design, and ship high-quality software solutions.
- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
- Work with project managers, technical leads, and business analysts to contribute throughout the SDLC cycle.
- Manage stakeholders for driving business decisions, negotiating priorities, and partner with various business teams to drive strategy and technology adoption
- Ensure scale, resilience and stability through risk identification and mitigation, quality code reviews, creating robust test suites, and providing level two support.
- Foster continuous improvement in software development practices through innovation and automation.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve development processes.
Skills & Experience
- Experience leading development teams or projects of a significant application, system, or component.
- Hands-on programming experience in Java, Python, JavaScript with OO skills and design patterns
- Experience with Open-Source technology stacks and frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Junit)
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (such as SQL Server, Apache Cassandra)
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and software architecture skills.
- Experience in partnering with other teams, sponsors, and user groups who are on the same product journey.
- Ability to work in Agile/Scrum development environments with strong teamwork, communication, and time management skills.
- Innovative and a thought leader around new/cutting-edge technologies.
Nice To Have
- Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC.
- Experience with cloud native tools (such as Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud platforms (such as Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Exposure to high scale distributed technologies such as Kafka, Ignite, Redis.
- Experience with DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and tools like Azure DevOps.
- Experience or real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
Qualifications
- B.S. / M.S. college degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject area
- 3+ years of hands-on development exposure
For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $132,500 – $157,500. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.