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We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are-with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action-enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.\nIf you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.\nSkills and Competencies\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including delivering complex, multi-team initiatives withmeasurable business impact, and experience setting technical direction as a principal, staff or lead engineer, with\na strong track record of remaining hands-on in software design, development and delivery while providing\ntechnical leadership.\n\nStrong hands-on experience building enterprise AI applications on large language models, including agents,orchestration frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, and evaluation frameworks.\n\nExperience designing multi-agent or subagent architectures and successfully taking agentic systems fromprototype to production deployment.\n\nKnowledge or practical experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool-based architectures, toolregistries, and governance controls including guardrails, permissioning, auditing, and human approval workflows.\n\nHands-on experience with modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse, or equivalenttechnologies.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python and experience with cloud-native technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, APIgateways, event-driven architectures, and relational or vector data stores.\n\nExperience running AI systems in production environments, including observability, cost management, regressiondetection, robustness testing, and incident response.\n\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams, communicate complex architecture totechnical and non-technical audiences, and drive adoption of new engineering tools and practices.\n\nDeep expertise in artificial intelligence, with a track record of implementing advanced AI solutions to drivestrategic transformation and operational efficiency. 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The team develops the orchestration\nlayer that connects applications, intelligently selects tools, and automates complex workflows while keeping people\nin control.\nThe Principal Software Engineer will work in close partnership with the existing technical leadership of the team,\ncombining hands-on engineering with architectural guidance and technical decision-making. The role also involves\nextensive collaboration with architecture, product, and engineering teams across Grenoble, Edinburgh, and\nToronto, reflecting the distributed nature of the AXIS Cloud organization.\nBy joining the team, you will collaborate with architects, engineers, product partners, and domain experts to deliver\ntrusted, production-ready agentic AI solutions, enable concrete customer-facing use cases, and help shape the\nfuture of AI adoption across the Insurance Life business.\nMoody’s is an equal opportunity employer. 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