Your Team Responsibilities

We are seeking an Executive Director of AI Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of MSCI's AI platforms and capabilities across the MSCI business units. This role combines deep technical ownership of Generative AI systems in production with strategic leadership.
- Build and lead a high-performing AI engineering team focused on scalable platform development and production-grade AI infrastructure.
- Collaborate with research scientists, product managers, and business leaders to translate business problems into structured engineering solutions.
- Partner with data, cloud, and security teams to design architectures for data pipelines, model serving, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, responsible AI, continuous learning, and shared accountability across all teams.
- Act as a visible transformation leader, champion AI adoption, build trust, and drive engagement across all levels of the organization.
- Contribute to MSCI's overall AI strategy, ensuring alignment with product vision,



compliance requirements, and business growth priorities

Your Key Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver MSCI's AI platform using LLMs, semantic search, Agentic AI, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, from data ingestion and processing to model serving and inference on a cloud-native stack (GCP, Azure).
- Lead evaluation, integration, and optimization of large language models and open-source AI frameworks for production workloads.
- Design systems for user and machine interactions with a focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Build continuous learning and feedback loops using real-world data to improve model quality and reliability.
- Establish engineering standards, experimentation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines for Gen AI services.
- Drive innovation in areas such as adaptive personas, context memory, trust and safety filters, and agentic wo

📌 Executive Director AI Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 MSCI
📍 Bengaluru