Vanguard

Senior AI/ML Scientist

Vanguard
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1 day ago
Philadelphia, PA, USA +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business stakeholders to identify, frame, and prioritize high-value AI opportunities.
  • Translate business needs into AI use cases, success metrics, and delivery plans.
  • Architect and develop agentic AI systems using multi-agent and tool-augmented LLM approaches.
  • Build AI solutions that operate across tools, workflows, and data sources.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy scalable, secure, and performant AI solutions.
  • Implement evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails addressing bias, drift, reliability, and failure modes.
  • Align AI solutions with enterprise risk management, compliance, and responsible AI standards.
  • Advise teams on appropriate applications and limitations of agentic AI and LLMs.
  • Contribute to AI best practices, reusable patterns, and strategic direction.
  • Mentor peers and teammates on applied AI and business-driven problem solving.

Requirements

  • Experience designing AI agents that reason, plan, and act across systems.
  • Hands-on experience building enterprise LLM applications using approaches such as RAG, tool use, orchestration, and evaluation.
  • Strong experience working with unstructured text and language-driven workflows using NLP.
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
  • At least 3 years delivering AI/ML solutions in production environments.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on Python experience.
  • Distributed data processing experience is a plus.
  • Ability to solve business problems using AI rather than focusing only on model development.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience working in cross-functional, enterprise environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model designed to combine flexibility with in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.

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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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