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The team enables high-quality financial decision-making by delivering scalable, reliable, and compliant AI solutions used by some of the world’s largest financial services organizations.\nWe are seeking AI Engineers at Senior Associate levels to support MSCI’s AI adoption journey, with a focus on machine learning, NLP, GenAI, LLMs, and agentic AI systems. These roles are hands-on and engineering-focused, centered on building, integrating, and operationalizing AI capabilities across internal platforms and client-facing products.\nYour Key Responsibilities\nAI & Data Science Application Development\nDesign, develop, and maintain data science and AI-driven applications that support multiple MSCI business lines.\nImplement machine learning, NLP, and GenAI solutions that move from experimentation to production.\nBuild and integrate LLM-powered capabilities such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), summarization, classification, extraction, and reasoning into enterprise platforms.\nGenAI, LLMs & Agentic AI\nDevelop and enhance solutions using LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, and agentic AI frameworks.\nApply best practices in prompt engineering, orchestration, evaluation, and monitoring to ensure consistent, reliable AI outputs.\nWork with structured and unstructured data, including text processing, embeddings, and vector-based retrieval.\nPlatform Integration & Cross-Functional Collaboration\nSupport teams across Data, Technology, and Engineering to integrate AI services with MSCI’s data science platforms and APIs.\nEngage with content expert teams to understand MSCI datasets, data delivery platforms, and business workflows.\nCollaborate closely with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Data Operations, and IT Infrastructure across all stages of the development lifecycle.\nProduction Readiness & Engineering Excellence\nEnsure AI solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.\nFollow strong software engineering best practices, including test-driven development, code reviews, refactoring, and clean system design.\nContribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes to enable continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring of AI systems.\nAI Governance, Risk & Compliance\nEnsure AI and GenAI solutions comply with MSCI’s data governance, security, and responsible AI standards.\nImplement controls to support model transparency, traceability, auditability, and reproducibility, especially for LLM-based systems.\nApply guardrails to mitigate hallucinations, bias, data leakage, and misuse in AI outputs.\nEnsure appropriate handling of confidential, sensitive, and regulated data in accordance with firm policies.\nPartner with Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Information Security teams to support reviews, audits, and regulatory requirements related to AI systems.\nYour skills and experience that will help you excel\nRequired\n4-7 years of relevant experience in data science, AI engineering, or applied machine learning roles.\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.\nStrong hands-on experience in Python.\nSolid foundation in machine learning, NLP, and statistical modeling, including data exploration and visualization.\nHands-on experience or projects involving LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, or agentic AI systems.\nExperience delivering AI/ML solutions into production environments.\nUnderstanding of text processing and unstructured data.\nKnowledge of software engineering best practices (TDD, refactoring, modular design, version control).\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.\nSelf-motivated, proactive, and delivery-oriented mindset.\nPreferred / Nice to Have\nExperience with cloud platforms, particularly Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).\nFamiliarity with DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.\nUnderstanding of data governance, responsible AI, or model risk management concepts.\nPrior experience in financial services or other regulated environments.\nAbout MSCI\nWhat we offer you\nTransparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.\nFlexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.\nA culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.\nA global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.\nGlobal Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.\nMulti-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.\nWe actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.\nAt MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision - to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.\nMSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.\nMSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email  and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.\nTo all recruitment agencies\nMSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location, or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes.\nNote on recruitment scams\nWe are aware of recruitment scams where fraudsters impersonating MSCI personnel may try and elicit personal information from job seekers. 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