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Moody's Corporation · 7 hours ago

Associate Director - AI Financial Engineer (Limited Duration Employee)

New York, NY

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$118K/yr - $195K/yr

5+ years exp

Moody's Corporation is a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, committed to transforming how the world sees risk. They are seeking an Associate Director - AI Financial Engineer to manage and support AI-related innovations, focusing on improving AI-driven projects within the Asset Management Business Unit.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end support and improvements to financial document RAG pipeline (document parsing, retrieval, extraction, validation, and structured outputs)

Design and optimize embedding-based retrieval and vector database operations

Improve retrieval quality using advanced configurations to reduce missed terms and incorrect extractions

Implement agentic workflows, including reasoning, tool calling, multi-step orchestration, and state and memory management to handle complex documents and edge cases

Working with QA team to build and maintain a rigorous AI results evaluation framework, including benchmark datasets, labelling guidelines, metrics, regression tests, and experiment tracking

Analyze extraction errors, develop an error taxonomy, and translate findings into prioritized fixes balancing quality, latency, and cost

Help test and enhance Structured Finance/ Private Credit domain-specific Model Context Protocol implementation to improve tool reliability, tool selection, and end-to-end agentic workflow performance

Collaborate with AI squad team, product, engineering, and domain stakeholders to clarify requirements, communicate progress, and document designs, decisions, and deliverables

Qualification

AI document extractionNLPMachine LearningPythonSQLLLM API integrationAgentic workflowsEvaluation frameworkFinancial markets knowledgeSoft skills

Required

Deep hands-on experience building and improving AI powered RAG-based legal/financial document extraction (chunking, indexing, metadata, grounding, citation discipline)

Strong knowledge of NLP, Machine Learning, embeddings, vector databases (indexing, ingestion/re-indexing, filtering etc.) and semantic search and similarity analysis with proven retrieval optimization skills and prompt engineering skills

Solid experience integrating LLM APIs, including context-window budgeting, prompt/version management, and turning structured input to structured outputs

Hands-on work with agentic workflows: tool calling, multi-step orchestration, memory/state management, MCP and subagent etc

Ability to build a rigorous evaluation framework for AI generated output

Strong python skills and working proficiency in SQL or equivalent database query and management tools

Master's degree in Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Information Technology, or related field

3+ years of experience building and delivering AI-enabled data and document processing solutions with proven, hands-on track record of improving accuracy, consistency and production reliability

Preferred

PhD complete or in progress

5-10+ years of experience in Finance, Fixed Income, Structured Finance and Private Credit

Benefits

Completion bonus

Insurance

Discounted employee stock purchase plan for limited duration employees

Company

Moody's Corporation

Glassdoor3.8

In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody’s helps customers develop a holistic view of these risks to advance their business and act decisively.

Founded in 1970

New York, New York, US

10001+ employees

http://www.moodys.com

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