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    The Vanguard Group, Inc.

    Investment Management

    Senior AI/ML Scientist

    Malvern, PA, United StatesFull-time5+ yrs experiencePosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    Responsibilities:

    Solve Business Problems with AI

    • Design and build advanced ML models that integrate multi-dimensional data into insights and signals that drive critical business decisions.

    • Design and build enterprise knowledge systems that integrate structured and unstructured data across multiple business platforms, enabling AI agents to retrieve, reason over, and operationalize trusted organizational knowledge.

    • Partner with business stakeholders to identify, frame, and prioritize high‑value problems that can be addressed using Agentic AI, LLMs, and ML.

    • Define and implement business-centric evaluation frameworks that measure coverage, relevance, trustworthiness, explainability, and user adoption in addition to technical model performance.

    • Focus on business outcomes, not just model performance.

    Design & Build Agentic AI Solutions

    • Architect and develop agentic AI systems that can reason, plan, and take actions across tools, workflows, and data sources.

    • Design multi‑agent and tool‑augmented LLM solutions to automate complex, multi‑step processes.

    • Ensure solutions are reliable, explainable, and governed for enterprise use.

    Scalable & Responsible AI

    • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy AI solutions with scalability, security, and performance in mind.

    • Implement evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails for LLM and agentic systems, including bias, drift, and failure modes.

    • Align solutions with enterprise risk management, compliance, and responsible AI standards.

    Thought Leadership & Collaboration

    • Act as a trusted AI advisor, helping teams understand where Agentic AI and LLMs add value—and where they do not.

    • Contribute to AI best practices, reusable patterns, and strategic direction.

    • Mentor peers and teammates on applied AI and business‑driven problem solving.

    Qualifications:

    • Agentic AI: Experience designing AI agents that reason, plan, and act across systems.

    • Large Language Models (LLMs): Hands‑on experience building enterprise LLM applications (e.g., RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation).

    • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Strong experience working with unstructured text and language‑driven workflows.

    • ML: Hands on experience with Gradient Boosting methods, familiar with preeminent hyper-parameter tuning and interpretability options.

    • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.

    • 3+ years delivering AI/ML solutions in production environments.

    • 5+ years of hands‑on Python experience; experience with distributed data processing is a plus.

    • 0Strong ability to solve business problems using AI, not just build models.

    • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

    • Experience working in cross‑functional, enterprise environments.

    Special Factors

    Sponsorship

    Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

    About Vanguard

    At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

    To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

    How We Work

    Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

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    About the company

    The Vanguard Group, Inc.

    Vanguard is a global investment management company offering a wide range of investment products and services.

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