Quant jobs / BlackRock

Director, Quantitative Engineer

A senior engineering leadership role in Aladdin's Quantitative Analytics Engineering group, which turns valuation, risk and attribution models into production software. The team behind this role builds the single-security analytics platform covering swaps, bonds, private credit and derivatives.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Design the next version of the single-security analytics platform in C++23 and Python
Find and remove performance bottlenecks in cloud-based analytics calculations
Build APIs and monitoring pipelines so clients can access analytics
Lead cross-site delivery with colleagues in Europe, India and the US
Mentor engineers and set code quality and testing standards

What they ask for

Required

10+ years of enterprise software development
Production ownership of services or distributed systems
C++17 or later and Python 3
Software architecture, APIs, concurrency and distributed systems
Design patterns, algorithms and data structures
Testing, version control and CI
Mentoring and technical leadership

Preferred

Finance or fixed-income knowledge
Agentic development principles
Container orchestration

Education: Bachelor's in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Experience: 10+ years of enterprise software development
Languages and tools: C++
Python
SQL
Bash
PowerShell
Markets: fixed-income, credit, multi-asset

How to prepare

Practise modern C++ with a build system such as CMake and a profiler on a numerical library
Build a small pricing service in Python with a C++ core and an API in front
Study distributed systems, concurrency and low-latency design
Learn how bonds and swaps are priced so you can talk to quants

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with BlackRock and doesn’t handle applications.