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Quantitative Researcher Private Assets

MSCI Inc.
MSCI Inc. Salary
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/12/2026
Your Team Responsibilities

The Fixed Income and Multi Asset-class Factor research team focuses on building innovative analytics models to help clients manage their risk and make investment decisions. The team combines deep thinking, financial experience and world leading data to construct rigorous models tailored to solving our client's problems.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Use MSCI's world class data to build innovative analytics models
  • Contribute to publishing research content that advances the MSCI research agenda and build research narrative that can provide insights to institutional clients.
  • Deliver research on topics ranging from asset allocation, portfolio construction, benchmarking, factors, private asset investing, and cashflow management.
  • Participate in client discussions and help provide investment insight

Your Skills And Experience That Will Help You Excel

  • A degree in a technical or quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, applied economics, or finance (all levels considered, from bachelor's to doctorate).
  • At least 4 years of relevant work or graduate experience in quantitative investment research or as a data scientist / data engineer with strong financial background
  • Ability to think and communicate clearly about complex ideas to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience with Python. Proficiency in SQL. Experience with AI and machine learning is a plus.
  • Enthusiam for investment modeling

About MSCI

What we offer you

  • Salary Range: $155,000 - $202,000 / 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 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.

To all recruitment agencies

MSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location, or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes.

Note on recruitment scams

We are aware of recruitment scams where fraudsters impersonating MSCI personnel may try and elicit personal information from job seekers. Read our full note on careers.msci.com

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