The Early Career Talent Acquisition team is looking for an Associate level recruiter to help drive and deliver the Early Careers recruitment strategy, building relationships with internal clients and external candidates and providers, serving as a talent scout for the firm.

Our objective is to source and deliver exceptional entry-level talent to the firm across a broad spectrum of roles across UK, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). This is accomplished through engagement initiatives; marketing campaigns; utilizing technology to connect with candidates, curating talent pools; and developing candidate screening and selection methods to cast a wide net for talent and hire the most suitable diverse talent.

The Role

Our recruiters are part of a small and close-knit team reporting to the Head of EMEA Early Careers based in Edinburgh, working in collaboration with the broader global Campus function. The recruiters work with senior leaders in the business, HR business partners, and Talent Management colleagues with responsibility for the end-to-end talent attraction and recruitment process for Technology hiring. The recruiters will also contribute to the planning and delivery of insight events and the Summer Internship, Quant Masters, and Apprenticeship Programmes

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Driving the end-to-end technology recruiting process

• Understanding the needs of the business to design and execute a recruiting process to attract and assess a strong pipeline of diverse candidates

• Developing strong relationships with key business stakeholders, the global campus team and other HR colleagues

• Design and execution of in-house and external events and programmes across the region

• Ownership of data management and reporting for relevant business areas

The successful candidates will be creative, flexible and solutions oriented, a great team player with the ability to drive projects to completion and build relationships.

About you

• Demonstrable passion for Early Careers recruiting with experience in a fast-paced Early Careers recruitment function

• Previous experience hiring volume Technology roles

• Good understanding of the Early Careers talent market in the UK and across the EMEA Region

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to travel if required, to EMEA destinations

• Experience in a client-facing role with strong cross team and firm relationship building skills, capable of adapting style of communication to the audience

• Demonstrated problem solver with strong attention to detail

• Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment. Working independently, while also acting collaboratively as a great team member in our global group

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise effectively

• Ability to deliver change initiatives with previous experience of project delivery

• Experience working in a global environment, necessitating flexible hours at times especially in peak season

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.

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About the Role Copilot for consumers depends on a rock-solid identity foundation that makes personalized AI experiences safe and seamless across Windows, Edge, web, and mobile. We’re seeking a hands-on Principal Software Engineer to define and lead the strategy for authentication, authorization, and account systems across Copilot experiences, partnering deeply with Microsoft’s central identity platform and related teams. You’ll tackle novel risks at the frontier of agential AI, applying proven solutions and inventing new ones where needed. This role demands a rare blend of deep backend engineering expertise, mastery of modern consumer identity protocols, and the ability to make sound trade-offs between risk and velocity,keeping Copilot moving fast while raising the security and reliability bar.

Why This Role Matters Your work will secure AI experiences for hundreds of millions of users worldwide, shaping how people trust and interact with Microsoft’s most transformative products. If you thrive on solving hard technical problems at scale, influencing architecture across platforms, and building systems that balance speed and trust, this is your opportunity to make a global impact.

Responsibilities Identity strategy & architecture: Define the end-to-end identity vision for consumer Copilot and MAI, covering user/account models, sign-in, session management, token issuance/validation, service-to-service auth, and cross-device experiences. Cross-surface platform leadership: Drive common authentication/SSO patterns and SDKs for Windows, Edge, web, iOS, and Android; ensure seamless UX and consistent security controls across consumer surfaces and modalities. Collaborate with product, engineering, security, privacy, and identity teams across Copilot, MAI and IDNA to drive improvements in authentication, identity, and security. Influence technical direction and best practices across a large, distributed system, ensuring alignment and adoption of key initiatives. Establish, monitor, and continuously improve key authentication metrics across Copilot and MAI. Collaborate with engineering, product, and identity teams to align on a unified ground truth and leverage dashboards for ongoing measurement and root cause analysis Align with central Microsoft Account roadmaps, influence platform capabilities, and land them in Copilot and MAI consumer scenarios at scale. Define and document authentication patterns and requirements for AI-powered, agential flows. Ensure these patterns address novel risks, support secure delegation, and enable safe orchestration of actions across devices and services. Hands-on engineering: Ship secure, well-tested, maintainable code and frameworks that other teams can adopt quickly. Product mindset: Balance customer experience with consumer-grade security, privacy, and compliance expectations for Copilot. Work closely with globally distributed teams, managing effective communication, coordination, and project delivery across multiple time zones. Foster strong cross-regional partnerships to drive identity and authentication improvements at scale.

Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience integrating with Microsoft Account, and familiarity with consumer identity features. Cross-platform delivery: Shipped identity flows and SDKs across multiple consumer client platforms (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, web). Governance & lifecycle: Familiarity with consumer identity lifecycle management and privacy controls. Privacy/Compliance: Experience embedding privacy-by-design and meeting consumer compliance expectations for Copilot-class workloads. Leadership: Track record mentoring senior engineers and driving adoption of platform standards across many product teams.

#MicrosoftAI Software Engineering IC6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 – $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 – $331,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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