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About the Role
MSCI is seeking individuals passionate about powering better decisions in the financial industry. You will be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers, challenging yourself and setting new standards in the field.
Responsibilities
- Build physical climate risk models using AI, numerical weather prediction, stochastic ensembles, earth observing foundation models, and physics-based models.
- Collaborate with climate scientists, hydrologists, fire scientists, data scientists, and data engineers to translate business requirements into scientific solutions.
- Partner with data, cloud, and security teams to design scalable and maintainable scientific modeling pipelines.
- Foster a culture of scientific rigor and excellence in model design, including conducting validation studies for continuous improvement.
- Lead a team of scientists to architect and implement models for climate risk assessment.
- Create robust, reproducible physical models that will stand up to peer review and validate well globally.
- Lead the establishment of standards, methodologies, and techniques for modeling physical risk and its changes due to climate change.
- Organize and facilitate team activities for tracking work progress.
- Communicate with internal stakeholders in product and sales teams.
- Align timelines and deliveries with project managers.
- Coordinate with other internal stakeholders to facilitate product requirements, deadlines, and compute resources.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Meteorology, Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography, Hydrology, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar subjects.
- 5+ years of experience in developing environmental products to meet client requirements, with a preference for probabilistic risk products.
- Programming experience in Python, R, C/C++, and/or Fortran.
- Experience with cloud optimized geospatial formats such as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), GeoParquet, and related standards.
- Knowledge of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) outputs and its shared socioeconomic pathways.
- Practical experience using AI tools (i.e. Claude Code, Codex) for writing production scientific code and pipelines.
- Familiarity with financial services and index space is a plus.
Skills
- AI numerical weather prediction
- Stochastic ensembles
- Earth observing foundation models
- Physics-based models
- Python
- R
- C/C++
- Fortran
- Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG)
- GeoParquet
- Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
- Shared socioeconomic pathways
- AI tools (Claude Code, Codex)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Ph.D.
Salary/Compensations
- $173,000 - $225,000 / year
- Eligible for annual bonus
Benefits
- Transparent compensation schemes
- Comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location
- Flexible working arrangements
- Advanced technology
- Collaborative workspaces
- Global Orientation program
- Access to Learning@MSCI platform
- AI Learning Center
- LinkedIn Learning Pro
- Tailored learning opportunities
- Multi-directional career paths
- 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)
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.