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About MSCI
MSCI is a US-based provider of investment decision support tools, including equity indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and ESG research used by institutional investors worldwide.
MSCI currently has
17 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$128,000–$205,000
across 17 roles with salary data.
As Executive Director, AI Research, you will join the Private Assets R&D group to build out AI-native research capabilities for private equity, private credit, and real assets. You will define the AI research agenda, developing approaches for evaluated pricing, comparable selection, and cash flow forecasting. Your daily work involves designing agentic AI workflows, automating market commentary generation, and translating research into scalable client solutions. You will utilize Python, R, and modern ML frameworks to work with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and deep learning. The role requires applying these technologies to unstructured text, financial filings, and embedding-based similarity models. You will solve complex problems in private markets analytics, providing institutional-grade tools for pension funds and asset managers by bridging the gap between advanced AI research and production-ready financial products.
Python
Large Language Models
Deep Learning
NLP
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI
Unstructured Data
Document Parsing
Web Extraction
Statistics
Quantitative Research
Rapid Prototyping