Job Summary:
Moody's Corporation is a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment. They are seeking an Assistant Director - Data Scientist to enhance modeling and analytical frameworks using state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning techniques to solve complex financial problems.
Responsibilities:
• Partner across Moody’s business lines to enhance modeling and analytical frameworks, incorporating state‑of‑the‑art ML and deep‑learning techniques.
• Design and deliver innovative analytical solutions, leveraging deep learning and quantitative methods to address complex financial, economic, and operational problems.
• Identify opportunities for automation and model‑based decision enhancement, applying neural networks, representation learning, and statistical methods to improve accuracy, efficiency, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross‑disciplinary teams to build scalable, cloud‑based analytical platforms grounded in clean, well‑engineered data.
• Apply deep expertise in statistical, machine learning, and deep‑learning methods to develop insights and decision frameworks for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Provide technical leadership, advising business partners on modeling strategy, tradeoffs, and the appropriate role of deep learning in analytical solutions.
• Communicate technical subject matter clearly and concisely, ensuring that insights, limitations, and implications are well understood by diverse audiences.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Hands-on experience building, training, and evaluating deep-learning models - not just familiarity with the concepts. You should be comfortable working with modern architectures (e.g., transformers, sequence, and representation-learning models) and reasoning about where they outperform classical approaches and where they don't.
• Ability to explain complex modeling work clearly to senior leaders, cross-functional partners, and non-technical stakeholders, in both writing and speech.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field; or master’s degree in any of these fields, with 2-3 years of experience in the financial industry.
Preferred:
• Depth in one or more deep-learning domains relevant to our work: representation learning for structured financial data, NLP for filings/news/unstructured text, or forecasting for macro and financial time series.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience developing and deploying models on large, complex, real-world datasets: financial statements, macro time series, text, and other unstructured sources.
• Ability to own the full model-development lifecycle: conceptualization, data exploration, design, estimation, validation, deployment, user training, and monitoring.
• Research output: publications, conference work, or open-source contributions.
Company:
In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody’s helps customers develop a holistic view of these risks to advance their business and act decisively. Founded in 1900, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.