About the Role
The Collection Platforms & AI team builds ML-powered products and capabilities for natural language understanding, data extraction, information retrieval, and data sourcing solutions for S&P Global and its clients. In this role, you will develop next-generation products and enhance existing ones to solve high-impact business problems, contributing to breakthrough products and significant business value.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy large-scale ML and GenAI-powered products and pipelines.
- Own all stages of the data science project lifecycle, including development, deployment, monitoring, and scaling of models through the full Software Development Life Cycle into production.
- Perform exploratory data analysis, proof-of-concepts, model benchmarking, and validation experiments for both ML and GenAI approaches.
- Partner with business leaders, domain experts, and end-users to gather requirements and align on success metrics.
- Follow coding standards, perform code reviews, and optimize data science workflows.
- Evaluate, interpret, and communicate results to executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong grasp of statistics, probability, and the mathematics underpinning modern AI.
- Proficiency in linear programming and optimization.
- Experience with multi-dimensional optimizers (e.g., Adam, SGD, Gradient Descent).
- Ability to adjust weights for full/partial tuning of LLMs.
- Hands-on experience with large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama), prompt engineering, fine-tuning/customization, and embedding-based retrieval.
- Intermediate to expert proficiency in Python (NumPy, Pandas, SpaCy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TF 2, Hugging Face Transformers).
- Understanding of ML & Deep Learning models, including architectures for NLP (e.g., transformers), GNNs, and multimodal systems.
- Solid understanding of database structures and SQL.
- Ability to perform independent research and synthesize current AI/ML research, with a track record of applying new methods in production.
- Experience in end-to-end GenAI or advanced NLP projects (e.g., NER, table extraction, OCR integrations, GNN solutions).
- Familiarity with orchestration and deployment tools: Airflow, Redis, Flask/Django/FastAPI, SQL, R-Shiny/Dash/Streamlit.
- Openness to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and programming languages.
- Public contributions or demos on GitHub, Kaggle, StackOverflow, technical blogs, or publications.
- 5+ years in professional work within AI space or building statistical/mathematical quantitative models in production.
- Advanced technical degree (Master and above) in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.
- Experience in productionizing AI applications.
- Experience with multi-modal LLMs and integrating vision and text for autonomous agents.
- Indefinite right to work within the USA.
- Indefinite right to work within Canada.
Skills
- Machine Learning
- GenAI
- Natural Language Understanding
- Data Extraction
- Information Retrieval
- Data Sourcing
- Python
- NumPy
- Pandas
- SpaCy
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow 2
- Hugging Face Transformers
- NLP
- GNNs
- Multimodal Systems
- SQL
- Prompt Engineering
- LLM Fine-tuning
- Embedding-based Retrieval
- Orchestration Tools
- Deployment Tools
- Airflow
- Redis
- Flask
- Django
- FastAPI
- R-Shiny
- Dash
- Streamlit
Location
- Princeton, NJ
- New York, NY
- Charlottesville, VA
- Toronto, ON
- Calgary, AB
- Mexico City, MX
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Master degree or above
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 – $160,000 (US)
- 95,000 CAD to 140,000 CAD (Canada)
Benefits
- Annual incentive plan (US)
- S&P Global benefits
- 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: Best-in class benefits for families.
- Beyond the Basics: Retail discounts and referral incentive awards.
About the Company
- S&P Global provides essential intelligence that empowers organizations to make confident decisions.
- Our mission is advancing essential intelligence.
- We are more than 35,000 strong worldwide, driven by curiosity and a shared belief that essential intelligence can help build a more prosperous future.
- We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world.
- We are committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business.
- Our values are Integrity, Discovery, and Partnership.
- Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead.
- We foster a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions.
- Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit.
- We value different perspectives and promote a culture of respect and collaboration to drive innovation and power global markets.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
