Sr. AI Engineer

The Role:

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. Work with exceptional global teams on a broad pipeline and build a career that makes a real difference for patients.

Moderna is strengthening its international business services hub in Warsaw, supporting our growing global operations. We welcome professionals ready to help advance our mission and shape the future of mRNA medicines.

This is an opportunity to shape the engineering foundation that powers Moderna's next generation AI capabilities across Supply Chain and Enterprise Digital. As a senior technical leader, you will define the architecture, standards, and deployment patterns that transform AI, machine learning, and Generative AI innovations into secure, scalable, enterprise-grade products. Working across engineering, product, quality, infrastructure, and business teams, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating how AI delivers measurable impact throughout the organization.

Here's What You'll Do:

• Provide deep technical leadership for the design, implementation, and operation of AI software platforms and cloud-based deployment patterns supporting Supply Chain and Enterprise Digital.

• Serve as a senior individual contributor, setting technical architecture, building critical software components, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring engineers across multiple regions.

• Own the end-to-end application architecture and delivery strategy for AI and data products, including lakehouse patterns, Unity Catalog governance, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, MLflow model lifecycle management, feature and data product packaging, model serving, vector search, observability, cost and performance optimization, and validated releases supporting GxP use cases.

• Define the technical strategy and reference architecture for AI software delivery, Generative AI applications, agentic workflows, machine learning services, APIs, and cloud-native AI and data platforms.

• Lead cloud deployment standards across development, testing, validation, and production environments, including workspace architecture, Delta Lake and Lakehouse design, Unity Catalog, Workflows and Jobs, MLflow, model serving, deployment automation, observability, and enterprise access governance.

• Design, build, and review critical software components, reusable libraries, orchestration patterns, model-serving interfaces, APIs, and platform accelerators that enable teams to transition AI prototypes into robust production solutions.

• Establish best-in-class engineering practices for AI/ML/LLMOps, including automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, release management, model and prompt versioning, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, incident response, and rollback strategies.

• Drive the integration of SAP and enterprise data sources into trusted data products, feature engineering pipelines, semantic layers, and intelligent decision-support services supporting Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and Enterprise Digital.

• Partner closely with product owners, enterprise architects, cybersecurity, quality, validation, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise architecture standards, security expectations, regulatory requirements, GxP compliance, and business objectives.

• Coach and mentor engineers by raising the quality of architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews while helping build a practical AI, Data, and Automation Center of Excellence through reusable engineering standards, frameworks, and accelerators.

• Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, developer experience, data quality, operational excellence, and cost efficiency through architectural guardrails, platform metrics, observability, operational playbooks, and continuous user feedback.

• Leverage modern Generative AI technologies and emerging AI engineering capabilities to accelerate software delivery, automate engineering workflows, and enable intelligent enterprise solutions that create lasting business value.

• Bring demonstrated experience delivering scalable AI, machine learning, Generative AI, APIs, and enterprise data applications into production environments with a strong focus on engineering excellence and operational reliability.

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.

• 7+ years of software, data, or AI engineering experience, including 4+ 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.

• Strong background in cloud architecture on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including IAM, networking, secrets management, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production support models.

• 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.

• Advanced experience with Databricks Asset Bundles, Terraform or infrastructure-as-code, Databricks SQL, Feature Engineering/Feature Store, Vector Search, model monitoring, and lakehouse governance patterns.

• Applied expertise in forecasting, optimization, simulation, anomaly detection, scheduling, inventory, logistics, or decision intelligence methods.

• 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 $145,900.00 - $234,200.00. 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 leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.  

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities. 

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S. 

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities. 

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law.  Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply!

Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best. 

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com. 

Export Control Notice
This position may involve access to technology or data that is subject to U.S. export control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, employment is contingent upon the applicant’s ability to access export-controlled information in accordance with U.S. law. Due to the nature of the work and regulatory requirements, only individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (citizens, permanent residents, asylees, or refugees) are eligible for this position. For this role Moderna is unable to sponsor non-U.S. persons to apply for an export control license.


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