Quantitative Researcher - Model Scaling

Your Team Responsibilities

The Factors Research Platform and Governance team is responsible for building and modernizing the infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks that power MSCI's quantitative risk and factor model research. The team develops the systems and environments that enable researchers to iterate quickly, maintain model governance, and deliver production-quality outputs at scale.

Your Key Responsibilities

Designing and building modern research infrastructure that integrates AI to accelerate model development, validation, and reporting workflows

Developing tools and frameworks that allow researchers to move from high-level specifications to production-ready implementations with minimal manual overhead

Building and maintaining automated validation, testing, and governance pipelines for quantitative models

Writing production-level code to support platform development and model delivery

Supporting existing factor and risk models while evolving the platform to enable faster research iteration

Collaborating cross-functionally with research, engineering, and data teams

Presenting complex systems and methods to a broad range of audiences

Your Skills And Experience That Will Help You Excel

M.S. or Ph.D. in Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative discipline

Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python

Hands-on experience with modern AI-assisted development tools and workflows, with a demonstrated ability to stay current with rapidly evolving AI capabilities and incorporate them into day-to-day work

Experience building systems and tooling that leverage AI/LLMs to augment technical workflows

Data analysis and experience with large-scale data infrastructure

Econometrics and applied statistics

Ability to work independently and drive projects from design through delivery

Knowledge of finance or risk modeling is preferred but not required

About MSCI

What we offer you

Salary range: $201,000 - $261,000 / year. Plus eligible for annual bonus.

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 View email address on click.appcast.io 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 View email address on click.appcast.io 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.