Senior AI Platform Lead — Production & Strategy

PassFort; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's is transforming how the world sees risk by advancing AI to move from insight to action. We seek a Principal Software Engineer-AI to lead strategy and execution for AI platforms and intelligent applications in New York.

You will grow engineering teams, drive multi-year roadmaps, and ensure excellence through architecture, MLOps, and governance practices, delivering measurable business impact at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience including 5+ years leading engineering teams
• Experience leading multiple teams or groups of teams across a portfolio
• Deep expertise in enterprise AI applications built on large language models and AI systems in production

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, delivery, and evolution of mission-critical AI platforms and intelligent applications
• Define and execute long-term technical strategies and multi-year roadmaps for AI platforms
• Grow and organize multiple engineering teams with accountability for delivery outcomes
• Drive architectural decisions and integration of AI-powered solutions across domains
• Establish engineering excellence through reviews, testing, observability, security, and MLOps practices
• Own budget planning, cloud infra, tooling, and vendor relationships
• Partner with product, risk, legal, compliance, and audit stakeholders for responsible AI governance
• Mentor and develop engineering talent and leadership pipelines
• Define and report metrics on platform adoption, delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency

Skills

Leadership

AI in production

LLMs

TypeScript

Python

Cloud architecture

Strategy & roadmaps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Moody's is transforming how the world sees risk by advancing AI to move from insight to action. We seek a Principal Software Engineer-AI to lead strategy and execution for AI platforms and intelligent applications in New York.

You will grow engineering teams, drive multi-year roadmaps, and ensure excellence through architecture, MLOps, and governance practices, delivering measurable business impact at scale.