Senior AI Engineer

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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

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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