Your team provides technical product expertise and industry insights. In this role, you will be working with members who contribute to a smooth and effective pre-sales process by demonstrating MSCI’s value proposition through compelling use-case examples and in-depth analysis across multiple asset classes.

You will produce findings that can either be published, or presented to end clients.

As an intern, you will collaborate with multiple teams across MSCI to conduct meaningful analyses leveraging MSCI’s suite of factor risk analytics, indexes, and other proprietary datasets. Your work may involve exploring areas such as alpha signal discovery, factor model validation, or dynamic model characterization under varying market conditions.

You are encouraged to think creatively—borrowing concepts from market regime detection, macroeconomic indicators, or sparse modeling techniques—to investigate innovative ways to interpret or enhance investment signals, especially in volatile or structurally changing market environments.

In addition, you will utilize internal AI functionalities to:

• Learn MSCI products through interactive and AI-assisted methods.

• Support automation or research through coding, scripting, or documentation generation.

• Experiment with AI use cases such as data parsing, model documentation, or natural language summarization.

• Creative use of AI to drive MSCI models to be windely known in Japan.

You will be expected to summarize your findings on AI usage, share feedback on its limitations or strengths, and optionally propose or prototype a lightweight AI tool that may support internal workflows, documentation enhancement, or decision analytics.

• Someone who enjoys intellectual and analytical challenges
• Bachelor’s Degree required ideally from engineering/mathematical background. Ideally MBA, or Masters Degree in a quantitative science, i.e. Finance and/or Phd
• Professional qualifications ideally CFA charter holder, FRM (Financial Risk Manager)
• Experience with RiskMetrics and Barra models would be considered a plus

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We 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.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment 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.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

MSCI 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 Disability.Assistance@msci.com 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.

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