Moderna

Senior AI Engineer

Moderna
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3 days ago
Cambridge, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$146k - $234k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build full-stack AI applications with user interfaces, backend APIs, reusable services, and enterprise integrations.
  • Own delivery from prototype through production, including automated testing, release management, observability, incident response, and application support.
  • Use AI coding agents for implementation, refactoring, debugging, test generation, and code review.
  • Establish engineering standards and deliver secure, reliable, validated releases for applicable GxP use cases.
  • Partner with product, architecture, cybersecurity, quality, and validation teams to meet business, technical, and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring as a senior individual contributor.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field, or equivalent deep technical experience.
  • 7+ years of software, data, or AI engineering experience, including 4+ years delivering production AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, automation, or data-intensive systems.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills with software architecture, API design, and data modeling fundamentals.
  • Hands-on frontend experience with Angular and TypeScript, including reusable components, state management, forms, API integration, accessibility, and responsive design.
  • Hands-on backend experience with Node.js/NestJS and TypeScript, plus Python/FastAPI for AI services.
  • Experience shipping GenAI applications using RAG, agents and tool use, embeddings or vector search, model and prompt evaluation, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Cloud engineering experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code, IAM, secrets management, monitoring, and production support.
  • Experience building secure, auditable systems and working with data integrity, validation documentation, and change control in regulated environments.
  • Preferred experience includes life sciences, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, regulated operations, GxP delivery, Databricks, MLflow, lakehouse governance, model serving, data products, forecasting, optimization, simulation, anomaly detection, decision intelligence, enterprise integration, or SAP.

Benefits

  • 70/30 work model with 70% of work performed in the office.
  • Competitive healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
  • Fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support.
  • Family planning benefits including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
  • Paid time off including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and discretionary year-end shutdown.
  • Savings and investment programs plus location-specific perks and extras.
  • Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award.

Tech Stack

Moderna

About Moderna

1,001-5,000 employees

Moderna is a pioneer and leader in the field of mRNA medicine. Through the advancement of its technology platform, Moderna is reimagining how medicines are made to transform how we treat and prevent diseases. Since its founding, Moderna's mRNA platform has enabled the development of vaccines and therapeutics across infectious diseases, cancer, rare diseases and more. With a global team and a unique culture, driven by the company's values and mindsets, Moderna's mission is to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines. For more information about Moderna, please visit modernatx.com and connect with us on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. This Moderna page is not the appropriate place to report adverse events (side-effects) for any products. If you are or someone you know is experiencing a side effect, please reach out to your healthcare professional. Moderna is continuously monitoring the safety of its products. We encourage you to report any side effects directly to us at 1‑866‑MODERNA (1‑866‑663‑3762). Please be cautious of fraudulent recruitment offers claiming to be from Moderna. Recruitment scams of this sort may originate from fake websites, social media accounts, or unsolicited communications and may ask you for personal information or request you pay them or someone else. Moderna will never ask you for payment, banking information, or anything of this sort at any stage of the recruitment process. If you are unsure about a communication, do not provide personal information and report the activity to recruitmentfraud@modernatx.com. You may also report suspected fraud to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

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