Associate AI ML Engineer

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable AI/ML and GenAI solutions for enterprise applications.
• Actively contribute to AI strategy and roadmap in collaboration with leadership and product teams.
• Ensure robustness, reliability, and optimization of production-grade data pipelines and ML systems.
• Drive end-to-end AI/ML lifecycle from ideation to deployment and monitoring.

Responsibilities: 

• Delivering new functionality by writing and shipping high quality code for AI systems meeting the MSCI requirements. 
• Fine tune, train and deploy large language models to either cloud platform. 
• Develop new agentic systems, applying various patterns such as RAG, ReACT, Reasoning and hierarchical agents. 
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code. 
• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment. 
• Monitor and optimize application performance. 
• Problem solving with alternative approaches and in collaboration with Business Stakeholders, Quality Assurance, Data Operation and IT Infrastructure on all stages of software development life cycle. 
• Encourages innovation and best practices 
• Following Agile methodology 

Delivered Work Items accepted by MSCI if : 

• all code is free of any major or critical code issues 
• all code has been reviewed (or pair programmed); 
• all code is unit quality assured and tested and accepted by MSCI 
• all coding standards have been met, and code has been re-factored where necessary; 
• everything is documented properly in Jira and in Confluence/Wiki  tools (per guidance from MSCI when required) 
• the scope of tests to be conducted and passed (e.g. user acceptance tests and non-functional tests); 

Tech Skills:

• Must to Have Technical Skillsets 4-5 years of experience: 
• Python, Gen AI, Vector Databases, Familiarity with either Azure or Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes,  
•  Azure Devops for CI/CD
• Good to Have Technical Skillsets 
• Java, LoRA, Milvus, Vertex AI, Langchain/ADK,  

Soft  skills: 

• work independently on their assigned tasks 
• take complete ownership over until the assigned feature is developed, tested, accepted and deployed in line with the terms of actual sprint’s Definition of Done 
• understand MSCI AI  technology stack 
• conduct end to end development work 
• take decisions alone 
• communicate effectively with the internal and external stakeholder to understand the problem 
• able to estimate the scope 
• conduct successful unit tests, Jira testing, integration testing, load testing (whenever applicable), regression testing before production release 
• code in line with MSCI best practices for python coding, defined on MSCI internal site 
• bring innovative ideas in for platform/process improvement and optimizations 
• be proactive and available 
• maintain, refresh the MSCI knowledge repository) on MSCI bodhi page (internal site) for the purpose of enhancing the documentation, sharing knowledge, reducing the number of repetitive questions, supporting resource onboarding and training existing team. 

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.

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