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This is a senior individual contributor role that combines hands-on engineering, architecture, technical leadership, and mentoring, in close partnership with product and business teams.\nYou will turn AI prototypes into secure, reliable production applications, connecting user experiences, backend services, enterprise data, and AI capabilities. You will establish practical engineering standards and deliver solutions on enterprise platforms, including validated releases for applicable GxP use cases.\nHere’s What You’ll Do\nDesign and build full-stack AI applications, including user interfaces, backend APIs, reusable services, and integrations with enterprise data and systems.\nOwn delivery from prototype through production, including automated testing, CI/CD, release management, observability, incident response, and ongoing application support.\nUse AI coding agents for implementation, refactoring, debugging, and test generation. Establish clear task context, review generated changes, and verify behavior before release.\nPartner with product, architecture, cybersecurity, quality, and validation teams to meet business outcomes, enterprise standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.\nHere’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Basic Qualifications)\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field; equivalent deep technical experience will be considered.\n7+ years of software, data, or AI engineering experience, including 4+ years delivering production AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, automation, or data-intensive systems.\nStrong proficiency with Python, SQL, with sound software architecture, API design, and data modeling fundamentals.\nHands-on frontend engineering with Angular and TypeScript, including reusable components, state management, forms, API integration, accessibility, and responsive design.\nHands-on backend engineering with Node.js/NestJS and TypeScript, complemented by Python/FastAPI for AI services, including authentication, authorization, service boundaries, testing, and production debugging.\nExperience shipping GenAI applications with RAG, agents/tool use, embeddings or vector search, model and prompt evaluation, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls.\nPractical experience using AI coding agents to deliver maintainable software, including providing repository context, reviewing changes, writing meaningful tests, and validating outputs.\nCloud engineering experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, IAM, secrets management, monitoring, and production support.\nExperience building secure, auditable systems, with an understanding of data integrity, validation documentation, and change control in regulated environments.\nHere’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)\nExperience in life sciences, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, or another regulated operational domain, including GxP delivery.\nExperience with Databricks, MLflow, lakehouse governance, model serving, or data product development.\nApplied experience in forecasting, optimization, simulation, anomaly detection, or decision intelligence.\nFamiliarity with enterprise system integration; SAP experience is a plus.\nOur Working Model\nAs we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.\nModerna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment.\nPay & Benefits\nAt 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.\nCompetitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs\nA holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support\nFamily planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support\nGenerous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown\nSavings and investments to help you plan for the future\nLocation-specific perks and extras\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\nAbout Moderna\nSince 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.\nBy 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.\nWe 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.\nIf 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.\nEqual Opportunities\nModerna 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!\nModerna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.\nAccommodations\nWe’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.\nModerna 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 .\nExport Control Notice\nThis 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. 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