AI Engineer

The Role: Moderna is seeking an AI Engineer in Cambridge, MA to provide deep technical leadership for the design, implementation, and operation of AI software platforms and Cloud-based deployment patterns for Supply Chain and enterprise Digital. This is an individual contributor role that sets architecture, codes critical components, establishes engineering standards, and mentors engineers while partnering closely with product and business leaders. You will own end-to-end application architecture and delivery strategy for AI and data products: lakehouse patterns, Unity Catalog governance, CI/CD and release automation, MLflow model lifecycle, feature/data product packaging, model serving, vector search, observability, cost/performance optimization, and validated releases for GxP use cases. The role requires demonstrated experience shipping scalable AI/ML/GenAI systems, APIs, and data applications in enterprise environments. Here's What You'll Do: Define the technical strategy and reference architecture for AI software delivery, GenAI applications, agentic workflows, ML services, and cloud-based data/AI platforms. Lead end-to-end Cloud deployment standards across development, test, validation, and production environments, including workspace architecture, Delta Lake/Lakehouse design, Unity Catalog, Workflows/Jobs, MLflow, model serving, deployment automation, observability, and access governance. Build and review critical software components, APIs, orchestration patterns, model-serving interfaces, reusable libraries, and platform accelerators that enable teams to move AI prototypes into production reliably. Establish engineering practices for AI/ML/LLMOps, including automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, release management, model and prompt versioning, evaluation, monitoring, incident response, and rollback. Guide integration of SAP and enterprise data sources into trusted data products, feature pipelines, semantic layers, and decision-support services for Supply Chain, Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, and Digital stakeholders. Partner with product owners, architects, cybersecurity, quality, validation, and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions meet business outcomes, security expectations, GxP requirements, and enterprise architecture standards. Improve platform reliability, performance, cost efficiency, data quality, and developer experience through metrics, architectural guardrails, operational playbooks, and continuous feedback from users and support teams. Here’s What You’ll Need (Basic Qualifications)  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field; equivalent deep technical experience will be considered. 4+ years of software, data, or AI engineering experience, including 2+ years delivering production ML, GenAI, analytics, automation, or data-intensive systems. Expert proficiency with Python and SQL, strong software architecture fundamentals, and experience with at least one additional language such as Java, Scala, or TypeScript. Hands-on frontend engineering experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and a modern framework such as React, Angular, Vue, or Svelte, including reusable components, state management, forms, charts, browser fundamentals, accessibility, and responsive design. Hands-on backend engineering experience designing production APIs and services using Python, Node.js, Java, Scala, or comparable technologies, including REST/GraphQL patterns, service boundaries, authentication, authorization, testing, observability, and production debugging. Demonstrated experience architecting and operating LLM/GenAI systems, including RAG, agents/tool use, embeddings/vector search, model and prompt evaluation, guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls. Experience designing secure, compliant, auditable systems in regulated environments, with practical understanding of GxP, data integrity, validation documentation, and change control. Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications) Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical manufacturing, supply chain, quality, or another regulated operational domain. Experience with SAP-centric supply chain data and integration patterns, including SAP ECC/S/4HANA, IBP, MM, PP, QM, SD, EWM/WM, MDG, BTP, or related analytics enablement. Track record of mentoring senior engineers, shaping engineering communities of practice, and influencing technical direction across global teams. Pay & Benefits At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work. That’s why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between. Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown Savings and investments to help you plan for the future Location-specific perks and extras The salary range for this role is $121,600.00 - $194,500.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individual’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance. About Moderna Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leadi