
Kensho is the AI and Innovation Hub for S&P Global, developing cutting-edge machine learning technologies to transform businesses by unlocking insights from unstructured and semi-structured data. In partnership with S&P Global, Kensho leverages vast amounts of data to train AI solutions that address pressing business challenges. Their product suite includes Scribe for financial audio transcription, NERD for entity identification and connection to knowledge bases, Extract for structuring data from PDF documents, and Link for mapping company entities to S&P Global IDs. Kensho emphasizes a product-led, engineering-driven culture with a focus on creating scalable, robust, and useful technology, empowering clients to make decisions with conviction.

Kensho is the AI and Innovation Hub for S&P Global, developing cutting-edge machine learning technologies to transform businesses by unlocking insights from unstructured and semi-structured data. In partnership with S&P Global, Kensho leverages vast amounts of data to train AI solutions that address pressing business challenges. Their product suite includes Scribe for financial audio transcription, NERD for entity identification and connection to knowledge bases, Extract for structuring data from PDF documents, and Link for mapping company entities to S&P Global IDs. Kensho emphasizes a product-led, engineering-driven culture with a focus on creating scalable, robust, and useful technology, empowering clients to make decisions with conviction.
Role within S&P Global: AI and Innovation Hub for S&P Global
Core focus: NLP, machine learning, and data structuring for financial and enterprise customers
Founded: 2013 (out of Harvard and MIT)
Acquisition: Acquired by S&P Global in March 2018
Notable products: Scribe, NERD, Extract, Link
Transforming unstructured and semi-structured financial and enterprise data into structured, queryable insights using AI and machine learning.
2013
Artificial intelligence / Financial technology
50000000.00
Reported $50M round led by S&P Global prior to acquisition.
“S&P Global had been both a client and an investor and led Kensho's Feb 2017 funding round prior to acquiring the company.”
Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in Machine Learning and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions for S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Our solutions help businesses harness the power of data and Artificial Intelligence to innovate and drive progress. Kensho's solutions and research focus on speech recognition, entity linking, document extraction, automated database linking, text classification, natural language processing, and more.
As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer at Kensho Labs, you’ll help S&P Global’s strategic clients transform their businesses through solutions such as data retrieval agents, automated report generation, and novel applications of techniques like deep research that make use of Kensho’s AI capabilities.
We are seeking an experienced solutions leader to partner with our customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value from our AI capabilities. You will partner with senior business stakeholders to understand their pre-sales needs, guide their AI strategy, and identify the highest value use cases and applications. You will work with business and technical teams to demonstrate the value of our solutions and recommend architectural patterns to kickstart their implementation and development. You will work closely with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Design teams.
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At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:
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We are an equal opportunity employer that welcomes future Kenshins with all experiences and perspectives. Kensho is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an additional office location in New York City. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Job ID: 319874
Posted On: 2025-09-03
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States