Research Engineer, Portfolio Management Group, Associate

Locations: Mumbai, India

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Our investment professionals thrive in a culture that pushes them to question the status quo, overdeliver for clients, and work together to shape the future of the industry. At BlackRock, you’ll forge meaningful relationships within your team and across the firm – expanding your network as you tackle complex challenges with a collaborative approach, integrated research and risk management. In an environment that feels welcoming and inclusive, you’ll discover opportunities to hone your skills, develop new expertise, gain mentorship, and build the investment career you envision.

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Business Overview

PMGTechis the horizontal technology platform within BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group (PMG), integrating investment research with advanced engineering, AI, and alternative data to make technology a direct driver of alpha. Itoperatesas one global team across three verticals – Platform Strategy, Research Solutions (DS&S), and Platform Change (IPT) – partnering closely with the BlackRock Aladdin ecosystem and PMG investment leadership. This integrated model delivers a coherent tech strategy, strengthens the research community, and scales capabilities across regions, asset classes (Equities, Fixed Income, Multi-asset), and investment styles (discretionary and systematic).

PMGTechleads PMG’s AI strategy by building an AI-ready research environment, unified data layer, agentic orchestration networks, and an investment-focused application layer to deploy AI-powered research solutions into production. As part ofPMGTech, you will work directly with investment researchers and portfolio managers to build and scale capabilities in data engineering, GenAI, and platform tooling that streamlines research workflows and enables differentiated alpha-generative investment insights across PMG’s investment pillars.

Job Purpose / Background

The Research Engineer supports investors and research teams by building data workflows, research tools, analytics pipelines, and AI-assisted capabilities that help transform investor hypotheses into actionable insights.Embedded within DS&S research pods - asset-class focused sub-teams - this role requires collaboration withinvestors/researchers,AI Leads, andcore engineering teamto deliver high-quality data assets, exploratoryanalysesand research-enabling components.

This role requires that the engineer understand the business context and hypothesis of investors and translate the requirement into functional data solutions.This requiresexpertisein building and operatingdata intensive research solutions usingPython and SQL, workflow orchestration, Cloud Big Data technologies such asBigQuery/Snowflake/GCS, visualization tools such as Tableau/Power BI and experience in data quality, CI/CD pipelines, and data operations.

Key Responsibilities

Build andmaintainweb harvesting anddata pipelines, transformations, and workflows to support research hypotheses anddata analyses.

Develop new capabilities tosourcehigh-qualitydata and create scalable andmaintainable datasolutions.

Develop research utilities, prototypes, dashboards, or exploratory tools as needed by the podfor insight generationor research workflows.

Engage withinvestors and researchersto understand research workflows andtranslate requirements intodata solutions.

Collaborate with core engineering teams toadopt data extraction and management tools and technologies to accelerate investor research.

Collaborate with AI leads to source data and build AI applications to supplement investor researchwith AI-assistedsolutions.

Skills & Experience

Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.

Strong problem-solvingandanalyticalskills

Knowledge/curiosity about investment research workflowsor similardomains.

Prior experience indata engineering or dataanalytics,or data intensive applications.

Proven ability to work collaboratively across engineering andbusinessteams.

Qualifications

3+yearshands-onexperienceinData Engineering/Analytics

B.S. / M.S. college degree in Computer Science,DataScience/Engineering, or related subject area.

Nice to Have

Prior experience web harvesting tools and techniques (Scrapy)

Experience with cloud data tools (Snowflake,BigQuery,GCP).

Exposure toAI/ML tooling, LLM experimentation, orAI applications such asRAG, Summarization and Q&A (Open AI, Vertex, Anthropic).

Experience creating dashboards, notebooks, or lightweight research tools(Streamlit, Flask, Tableau, Power BI).

Familiarity with workflow orchestration or automation tools (Kubernetes/Airflow).

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.

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Benefits

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Financial well-being

We offer resources designed to help you build a sound financial future for you and your family, like retirement savings plans and tuition reimbursement.
Pay for performance

Our pay-for-performance philosophy includes a base salary and a discretionary annual bonus.
Physical well-being

Our healthcare plans and resources help you focus on your physical health, so you and your family can feel your best.
Emotional well-being

We support our people's mental health and emotional well-being by providing access to an Employee Assistance Program and a network of Mental Health Ambassadors.
Life management

You'll be able to focus on moments that are important to you with benefits designed to support life in and outside of work with Flexible Time Off, parental leave and more.