About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

Senior ML Engineer- Kensho (S&P Acquired)

Who We Are

Kensho is a 120-person AI and machine learning company within S&P Global. We provide ML and AI solutions centered around providing cutting-edge solutions to meet the challenges of some of the largest and most successful businesses and institutions. Our toolkit illuminates insights by helping the world better understand, process, and leverage messy data. Specifically, our solutions largely involve natural language processing (NLP) and include speech recognition (ASR), entity linking, structured document extraction, record linkage, text classification, and more. We are continuously expanding our portfolio and are looking for passionate people to help us build and deploy state-of-the-art models across a variety of domains!

Kensho Link is a machine learning service that allows users to map entities in their datasets with unique ID numbers drawn from S&P Global’s world-class company database with precision and speed. Link started as an internal Kensho project to help S&P Global Market Intelligence and CapIQ integrate datasets more quickly into their platform. It uses an AI algorithm trained to return high quality links, even when the data inputs are incomplete or contain errors. Link leverages a variety of NLP and ML techniques such as Levenshtein distance, TF-IDF, and boosted tree models to process and link millions of company entities in a matter of hours. 

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership to the machine learning team working on the Kensho Link product 

• Partner with Product manager to develop a future vision for the product 

• Organize team’s work by translating product goals into technical once 

• Facilitate day-to-day operations and timely delivery of a product 

• Oversee and lead the work on the core capabilities that the team builds, including scoping and planning of ML projects 

• Actively participate in the ML model lifecycle, from problem framing to training, deployment and monitoring in production 

• Work in a cross-functional team of ML engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Backend & Frontend engineers who are passionate about their product 

• Mentor and lead other ML Scientists and Engineers to help make our team even more awesome! 

Who You Are

• Have 5+ years of significant, hands-on experience designing, building, evaluating, and maintaining robust and scalable production ML systems 
• Experience with scoping and planning of ML projects 
• Exercise strong communication skills and can effectively express even complicated methods and results to a broad, often non-technical audience 
• Excellent understanding of an ML-based product lifecycle 

• Comfortable with modern tools for building ML pipelines, including data processing, training, inference, and evaluation 
• Proficiency in Python 
• Have led initiatives from the ideation stage to implementation 
• [optional] Experience developing search or recommender systems 
• [optional] Experience working with databases and other datastores 

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Technologies We Use

• Technologies & Tools We Use:
• Traditional ML: SKLearn, XGBoost, LightGBM
• Deep Learning: HuggingFace, PyTorch, Transformers, GNNs, DGL, LangChain
• Deployment: Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS
• EDA/Visualization: Pandas, Matplotlib, Jupyter, Weights & Biases
• Tools/Toolkits: DVC, NVIDIA NeMo, MosaicML, LabelBox
• Datastores: Postgres, OpenSearch, SQLite, S3
• Techniques: RAG, Prompt Engineering, Information Retrieval, Data Embedding

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. 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 start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• 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: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.

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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 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.  
 
US Candidates Only:  The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.  Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision - https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf

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