At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.
If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.
Skills and Competencies
Required skills for the position:
- Experience with the Python programming language, including reading and writing tested, reviewed code
- Basic understanding of cloud technologies and how applications are hosted, configured and monitored in a cloud environment
- Familiarity with web application concepts, including application programming interfaces and the separation between a backend service and a browser frontend
- Experience with a version control system such as Git, and comfort working from the command line on a Unix or Linux system
- Self-motivated and solutions-oriented, with the ability to make progress with high-level guidance rather than step-by-step direction
- Clear and confident communicator, able to explain technical work to engineering, product and business audiences
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-moving delivery environment
- Basic understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, with curiosity and enthusiasm for learning how AI tools can be used to improve processes and drive efficiency. Interest in exploring AI systems and a willingness to develop awareness of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
Nice-to-have skills that are beneficial but not mandatory:
- Experience building or extending applications that call large language model services, including prompt design and evaluation of model output
- Experience with an asynchronous Python web framework such as FastAPI
- Experience with modern frontend development using TypeScript, React or Next.js
- Experience writing unit, regression or integration tests, and working with continuous integration pipelines
- Exposure to infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, and to cloud services for application hosting, secret storage, document databases and container registries
- Familiarity with the JavaScript Object Notation data format and with event streaming over HTTP, such as server-sent events
- Interest in emerging agent interoperability protocols, such as the Model Context Protocol and agent user interface streaming standards
- Exposure to application logging, tracing and telemetry tools used to troubleshoot production issues
Education
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or a related field
- Candidates ideally graduating in 2028
- Anticipated Start Date: March 2027
Responsibilities
Support the engineering team that builds and operates an enterprise agentic AI assistant serving as a virtual project manager for internal teams.
About the Team
Our Digital Workplace Services Engineering team is responsible for building and operating the internal applications Moody's employees rely on every day. The team designs and ships an enterprise agentic AI application that serves as a virtual project manager for internal teams, owns the full stack behind it, and partners with security and operations colleagues to run it safely in production. By joining our team, you will be part of exciting work at the intersection of AI agent engineering, Microsoft 365 integration and cloud infrastructure — working hands-on with frontier large language models and emerging agent protocols to deliver intelligent automation across project tracking, document generation and collaboration tooling.
Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.