At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive workplace 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.

If 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.

Skills And Competencies





Possesses more than 7 years of overall experience with 5+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, with advanced proficiency in Python for building scalable, production-grade systems.
3+ years developing production RAG pipelines, including semantic and hierarchical chunking, advanced query rewriting, and multi-query strategies.
Proficient in hybrid search techniques combining dense retrieval, BM25, filtering, and reranking; skilled in optimizing context windows and balancing latency, recall, and precision trade-offs.
Well-versed in retrieval evaluation methodologies such as NDCG, MRR, recall@k, precision, and domain-specific assessments.
Demonstrated experience using Vector DBs (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.), including index tuning, sharding/replication, distributed search, and low-latency retrieval optimization
Skilled in selecting and adapting embedding models (SBERT, OpenAI, Cohere, Voy

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Moody's
📍 Bengaluru