About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

S&P Global Corporate

The role: Associate Director, AI Engineering

Location: Princeton, NJ or New York, NY (hybrid -2 days onsite per week)

What's in for you?:
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.

What we are looking for?

• 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 (eg 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 Information (US Applicants Only):

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 – $190,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is 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.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re co