Associate Director - Applied AI Engineer

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. 

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

An Applied AI Engineer who specializes in designing and implementing comprehensive solutions that leverage cutting-edge AI with a deep understanding of business needs. Acts as a senior technical partner embedded within business units to identify strategic opportunities and build scalable, enterprise-grade AI solutions. Focuses on capturing complex business requirements, advanced application design and development, and robust scalable infrastructure. Builds efficient pipelines and interfaces while ensuring optimal system performance, security, and regulatory compliance. Captures and leverages organizational knowledge to transform raw data into actionable insights, aligning AI platforms with strategic business objectives and driving measurable business impact. 

Skills and Competencies

Advanced Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python/Javascript or similar, with demonstrated leadership in implementing enterprise-scale frameworks like LangChain, SmolAgents, LlamaIndex, or similar. Experience architecting and deploying production AI systems.

Generative AI: Demonstrated experience (2-3) leading generative AI initiatives and strategy development. Proven track record of translating AI research into business value.

Strategic Data Management: Advanced proficiency in enterprise data architecture, including experience with data governance, privacy frameworks, and large-scale data processing using tools like Pandas, NumPy, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Emerging Technology Evaluation: Experience evaluating emerging AI technologies, and establishing best practices from academic and industry sources. Ability to assess technology risks and opportunities.

Business Strategy and Problem-Solving: Proven ability to identify high-impact business problems, design comprehensive AI solutions, and lead cross-functional teams through complex implementation challenges.

Education

Advanced Degree: MSc/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, or related quantitative field.
Professional Development: Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning in AI/ML through certifications, publications, or conference participation.
Leadership Foundation: Evidence of technical leadership capability, business acumen development, and successful track record of driving organizational change.

Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership: Embed with senior leadership across business units to understand complex organizational challenges and identify high-impact AI transformation opportunities that align with strategic objectives.

Enterprise Solution Architecture: Design, build, and deploy comprehensive AI-powered solutions including advanced automation frameworks, intelligent data pipelines, predictive analytics platforms, and custom enterprise tools that meet stringent financial industry standards.

Technical Leadership and Governance: Serve as the senior technical authority and AI strategist for assigned business units, establishing AI best practices, security protocols, and compliance frameworks.

Applied AI Team Collaboration: Lead participation in the Applied AI team, driving knowledge sharing initiatives, establishing technical standards, and mentoring junior engineers across multiple business units.

Organizational Change Management: Drive adoption of AI solutions at scale, designing training programs for diverse user groups and managing the organizational change process for AI tool implementation.

Strategic Portfolio Management: Oversee multiple concurrent AI initiatives, managing project timelines, resource allocation, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring alignment with business priorities.

About the team

The Applied AI team harnesses the latest developments in GenAI to amplify MA's capabilities across the enterprise – helping teams operate in faster, smarter and more adaptive ways. Leveraging our team’s AI product and engineering expertise with our deep understanding of the business, we focus on high-impact internal workflows, starting with sales, where Moody’s customer relationships take shape and the path to long-term success begins. 
Our approach is guided by our vision to create shared institutional intelligence about our customers—their pain points, use cases, buying behavior and feedback. This collective knowledge is a foundational capability that helps fuel sharper decisions and faster actions across the entire business, including sales, customer service and success, marketing and lead generation, product strategy and management, operations, legal and finance.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $159,300.00 - $230,850.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email accommodations@moodys.com. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications

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This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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