About the Role
Associate Director, AI Engineering
Grade Level: 12
Location: Princeton, NJ or New York, NY or London, UK (hybrid – 2 days onsite per week)
You will lead the design, development, and scaling of AI-driven pipelines to transform workflows across S&P Global. This role requires a strategic leader who can architect end‑to‑end AI data collection and mining solutions using cutting‑edge models, cloud infrastructure, and orchestration tools while managing senior stakeholders and driving adoption at scale.
You will be a visionary technical leader with knowledge of designing AI solutions and pipelines and deploying AI applications in production environments.
Understanding of foundational models, neural networks and their applications.
In addition, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), orchestration tools (e.g. Kubeflow), and agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain, AutoGen).
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, and business teams to integrate AI into core offerings across SPGI
- Work with executive leadership to prioritize AI investments and resource allocation.
- Engage with external stakeholders (partners, vendors, academia) to foster innovation and collaboration.
- Establish best practices for AI model development, deployment, and monitoring.
- Ensure ethical AI use, compliance with regulations, and mitigation of bias and risks.
- Develop policies for data privacy, security, and responsible AI adoption.
- Oversee AI pilot programs and scaling of successful initiatives.
- Define KPIs to measure AI impact on business performance.
- Drive AI adoption across the organization through training and change management.
- Establish monitoring frameworks for AI system to system performance and drift analysis.
- Develop governance models for ethical AI agent deployment and compliance.
Qualifications
- 10+ years work experience with 5+ years in the AI space
- Experience with LLMs: Gemini, llama, gpt etc. and OCR: textract, tesseract etc.
- Strong understanding of the use of neural networks, embeddings, transformers etc.
- Cloud platforms (AWS SageMaker, Azure ML; etc)
- Orchestration tools (e.g. Prefect; etc)
- Agentic toolkits (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, Google Agentic Framework)
- Experience in productionizing AI applications.
- Strong programming skills in python and common AI frameworks
- Experience with multi-modal LLMs and integrating vision and text for autonomous agents.
- Proficient written and oral communication in English.
- Excellent presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with senior executives, IT Management, and developers.
- Experience in deployment and management of applications utilizing cloud-based infrastructure.
Right to Work Requirements
This role is open only for candidates with indefinite right to work within the USA.
Compensation & Benefits (US Applicants Only)
Base salary range: $150,000 – $190,000. Final base salary will be based on the individual’s geographical location, experience, and qualifications.
Eligible for an annual incentive plan. Not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries/us.
Benefits
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company‑matched student‑loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best‑in‑class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country, visit https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries.
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
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