Vanguard

AI Engineer

Vanguard
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13 days ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, implement, test, document, and support the AI orchestration platform and cloud-native services.
  • Build agent registry, health check, gatekeeper, agent onboarding, conversation history, compliance, and segmentation capabilities.
  • Integrate third-party products and model observability tooling, and support model governance and evaluation practices.
  • Develop knowledge management, retrieval, ingestion, RBAC, and multi-provider model access systems.
  • Promote services and infrastructure through development, test, and production environments and provide production support.
  • Participate in architecture, code, and test inspections; optimize performance and latency; and resolve technical issues.
  • Partner with product, engineering, internal clients, and cross-functional stakeholders on systems analysis, prototyping, and future AI platform capabilities.
  • Follow information technology, information security, architecture, software development, change control, and documentation standards.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, AWS, GitHub-based development workflows, and deployment pipelines.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
  • Minimum of five years of related work experience, including at least two years of development experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups with strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
  • Preferred experience building AI or software solutions involving agent orchestration, conversational AI, A2A protocols, RAG, knowledge management, or semantic search.
  • Preferred exposure to multiple model providers and evaluation or observability tools such as Arize.
  • Preferred experience with proof-of-concept, prototyping, or exploratory AI platform work.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model designed to provide flexibility alongside in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
  • Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.
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About Vanguard

10,000+ employees

Vanguard is an investment management company offering low-cost index and active mutual funds, ETFs, brokerage, retirement plans, and financial advice for individual, institutional, and advisor clients. Founded in 1975 by John C. Bogle and headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, it operates a client-owned structure in which its funds own the firm. Its business model centers on asset-based management and advisory fees.

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