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Quantitative Developer – Researcher

A developer-researcher role in MSCI's strats and AI transformation team, which builds the index construction and analytics platforms. You also promote AI-assisted development across engineering and research.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Develop and improve the index development platform and the real-time index analytics app
Test and teach AI-assisted development practices to engineering and research colleagues
Contribute to factor investing and alternative data research prototypes
Review AI-generated code for subtle defects before it ships

What they ask for

Required

Python software development
AI-assisted development tools
Critical code review
Problem-solving
Equity markets or portfolio construction interest
Cross-team communication

Preferred

Reusable libraries, APIs or developer platforms
Azure, Azure DevOps and CI/CD

Education: Not stated
Experience: Not stated
Languages and tools: Python
Azure
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a small index calculation library with tests and a clean API
Learn factor investing basics and replicate a simple multi-factor portfolio
Set up a CI pipeline for a Python package, including linting and type checks
Practise reviewing LLM-generated code and writing tests that expose its errors

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