AI/ML Developer - Associate- Software Engineering

Profile Description

We’re seeking someone to join our CDRR Technology team as a AI/ML Developer, in Tech Risk Gov & Controls (TRGC) to the design, development, and enhancement of a governed AI platform that combines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), secure and entitlement-aware data access, multi-step AI agent workflows, and integrations with authoritative enterprise data sources In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is Associate position that develops and maintains software solutions that support business needs.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Design and implement Generative AI and machine learning retrieval patterns
• Including lexical, semantic, and vector-based search, ranking, and retrieval strategies
• Develop and enhance RAG-based solutions that generate responses grounded in trusted enterprise information.
• Build secure document ingestion, parsing, and extraction capabilities for structured and unstructured content, including PDF, Word, Excel, and similar formats.
• Implement metadata management, access controls, and entitlement-aware information retrieval to ensure users receive only authorized content.
• Develop backend APIs, services, and asynchronous processing pipelines designed for scalability, throughput, resilience, and reliability.
• Design and implement multi-step and multi-agent AI workflows that coordinate retrieval, reasoning, processing, and downstream actions.
• Build and maintain integrations with enterprise data platforms, databases, APIs, services, and other authoritative information sources
• Develop scalable capabilities for batch and bulk query processing Implement observability, monitoring, usage analytics, and AI evaluation metrics to measure platform performance, quality, reliability, and user outcomes.
• Support testing, deployment, and production-readiness activities for AI/ML capabilities.
• Partner with engineering, product, risk, governance, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions meet applicable security, control, governance, and production standards Maintain appropriate traceability, auditability, and controlled access across AI-generated outputs and supporting data.
• Continuously improve platform architecture, engineering practices, and AI capabilities to support expanding enterprise use cases.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 4-6 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and experience working with AI/ML technologies
• Hands-on experience designing or developing Generative AI, machine learning, or retrieval-augmented generation solutions
• Strong understanding of information retrieval, semantic search, vector search, ranking, and document processing concepts
• Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, asynchronous processing pipelines, and distributed applications
• Experience integrating applications with enterprise data sources, databases, APIs, and services
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, data entitlements, and secure application development practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, metrics, testing, and evaluation frameworks or production systems.
• Ability to design solutions that balance AI capabilities with deterministic behavior, security, reliability, traceability, and governance requirements
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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