Your Team Responsibilities

We're seeking an exceptional Principal AI Engineer to join our AI team and shape the development of cutting-edge solutions that address MSCI's most complex analytical challenges. In this role, you'll architect and implement advanced AI systems that transform how global investors make critical decisions by providing sophisticated insights across financial markets, risk assessment, and portfolio analytics. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in AI/ML, proven experience in delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions, and a passion for leveraging technology to solve multifaceted problems in the financial data ecosystem.

As a senior individual contributor, you'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design innovative AI-powered platforms that process vast amounts of heterogeneous data, generate actionable insights, and enable data-driven decision-making at scale. You'll serve as a technical expert, establishing best practices and driving the adoption of state-of-the-art AI technologies while ensuring our solutions meet the rigorous standards required by institutional investors globally.

This role offers the unique opportunity to work on diverse, high-impact AI applications that shape how the world's largest financial institutions understand and navigate complex market dynamics.

Your Key Responsibilities

Design and implement enterprise-scale AI architectures for processing and analyzing complex, multi-dimensional financial and alternative data

Architect end-to-end ML pipelines that handle multi-modal data sources including structured market data, unstructured documents, and real-time feeds

Develop advanced NLP systems for extracting and validating critical metrics from millions of documents, reports, and regulatory filings

Apply cutting-edge AI techniques (including LLMs, computer vision, and deep learning) to solve MSCI's diverse AI use cases

Implement MLOps best practices and automated systems for model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement across multiple product lines

Collaborate with product teams and domain experts to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers on AI/ML best practices and architectural decisions

Partner with MSCI Research teams to advance the state of AI applications in financial analytics

Drive technical excellence through code reviews, design documentation, and knowledge sharing across the organization

Help improve AI Engg team's productivity by using AI agents to automate tasks

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

10+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML systems at scale, with deep hands-on technical expertise

Expert-level proficiency in modern AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and distributed computing platforms (Flink, Beam, Spark, Ray)

Proven track record of architecting and delivering enterprise AI platforms handling large scale data

Advanced knowledge of NLP, computer vision, and time-series analysis techniques with practical application experience

Experience with financial data, risk modelling, or quantitative analytics is highly desirable

Expertise in building real-time streaming architectures using technologies like Kafka, Flink, or Beam

Strong foundation in MLOps practices including model versioning, A/B testing, and automated retraining pipelines

Excellent technical communication skills with ability to present complex AI concepts to diverse stakeholders

Track record of publishing research or speaking at conferences on AI/ML topics

Passion for solving complex analytical challenges and using technology to drive innovation in financial markets

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, AI Learning Center , 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 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.

MSCI 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.

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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