Associate Director - AI Engineering

About the Role Title: Associate Director, AI Engineering Grade Level: 12 Location: Princeton, NJ or New York, NY (hybrid - 2 days onsite per week) Overview: Lead the design, development, and scaling of AI‑driven pipelines that transform workflows across S&P Global. Act as a strategic leader, architecting 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. 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 scale 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 performance and drift analysis. Develop governance models for ethical AI agent deployment and compliance. Qualifications 10+ years of work experience with 5+ years in the AI space. Experience with LLMs (Gemini, LLaMA, GPT, etc.) and OCR (Textract, Tesseract, etc.). Strong understanding of neural networks, embeddings, transformers, and related technologies. Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, etc.). Experience with orchestration tools (Prefect, Kubeflow, etc.). Familiarity with agentic toolkits (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, Google Agentic Framework). Track record of productionizing AI applications. Strong programming skills in Python and common AI frameworks. Experience with multimodal LLMs and integrating vision and text for autonomous agents. Excellent written and oral communication in English. High‑level presentation skills and comfort speaking with senior executives, IT management, and developers. Experience deploying and managing applications using cloud‑based infrastructure. Right to Work Requirements This role is open only for candidates with indefinite right to work within the USA. 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 require an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr S&P Global, Inc.