The AI Engineering team at MSCI is seeking a Senior Associate to help build and scale our internal platform for deploying intelligent agents. This platform enables developers and non-technical teams to quickly build, test, and deploy agents that interact with internal APIs and data while respecting entitlements and data boundaries.
You will work in close collaboration with engineers across cloud infrastructure, ML ops, and security to ensure the agent platform is robust, flexible, and easy to use. This role requires a passion for platform usability, developer experience, and pragmatic engineering in cross-cloud (Azure + GCP) environments.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Implement and improve internal tooling and runtimes for deploying agent-based applications across MSCI teams.
- Integrate entitlement and data-privacy policies into AI workflows using internal security and identity layers.
- Develop reusable libraries and interfaces for agents to interact with MSCI services via MCP and additional integrations .
- Collaborate with UX and internal client teams to build low-friction, high-compliance agent deployment pathways.
- Contribute to observability, sandboxing, and monitoring capabilities for agent executions and workflows.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
- Experience building testing, validation, or observability systems in ML or production software environments.
- Working knowledge of common agent architectures, LLM prompting strategies, and feedback mechanisms.
- Comfort working with structured logging, tracing, and evaluation frameworks across GCP or Azure environments.
- Familiarity with common agentic development platforms like OpenAI agents sdk , google s adk , langchain , etc
- Strong analytical mindset with a focus on automation and reproducibility of complex behaviour traces.
- Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines (engineering, product, risk) to define validation metrics and processes.
About MSCI
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 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.
.
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 . Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.
To all recruitment agencies
.
Note on recruitment scams