AI Engineer (Agentic AI / MCP)

About the Role: Grade Level (for internal use): 09 The Team: Our team is responsible for the design, architecture, and development of our client facing applications using a variety of tools that are regularly updated as new technologies emerge. You will have the opportunity every day to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and will be able to develop a close team dynamic with coworkers from around the globe. Responsibilities & Impact: The work you do will be used every single day, it's the essential code you'll write that provides the data and analytics required for crucial, daily decisions in the capital and commodities markets. Solve problems, analyze and isolate issues. Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the team and help them adopt change as new processes are introduced. Champion best practices and serve as a subject matter authority. Develop solutions to develop/support key business needs. Engineer components and common services based on standard development models, languages and tools Produce system design documents and lead technical walkthroughs Produce high quality code Collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical partners As a team-member should continuously improve the architecture What We're Looking For: Basic Qualifications: 4-6 years of hands-on software development experience with strong engineering fundamentals. Proficiency in Python (primary) for building AI services and integrations. Experience with LLM application development (prompting, structured outputs, function/tool calling, conversation state, eval-driven iteration). Strong understanding of Agentic AI concepts: planners/executors, tool routing, memory, reflection/critique loops, and failure recovery. Practical experience using agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Semantic Kernel, or similar. Working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol): building/consuming MCP servers, defining tool schemas, connecting agents to external systems (files, DBs, SaaS), and managing permissions/scopes. Experience building RAG pipelines: chunking strategies, embeddings, re-ranking, metadata filtering, and grounding responses with citations. Experience with production concerns: observability (traces/metrics/logs), prompt/agent telemetry, cost/latency optimization, rate limits, and fallback strategies. Knowledge of security and data handling for AI systems: PII controls, secrets management, access control, and safe tool execution/sandboxing. Cloud and deployment experience (any): AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, serverless, and scalable API design. Preferred Qualifications: Search Technologies: Query and indexing content for Apache Solr, Elastic Search Working knowledge on CI/CD build/deployments Big Data Technologies: Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Hadoop, Hive, Airflow Data Science Search Technologies: Personalization and Recommendation models, Learn to Rank (LTR) Database Technologies: MS SQL Server platform, stored procedure programming experience using Transact SQL. Ability to lead, train and mentor. About S&P Global Market Intelligence At S&P Global Market Intelligence, a division of S&P Global we understand the importance of accurate, deep and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivaled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence. What's In It For You? Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence. 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. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference. Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership 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. 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