Senior AI/ML Scientist

@ The Vanguard Group, Inc.
The Vanguard Group, Inc.thevanguardgroup,inc..com

Senior AI/ML Scientist

Malvern, PA
Posted 3 weeks ago

About the job

Vanguard is committed to long-term financial wellbeing and innovation. The role focuses on designing AI models, agentic systems, and collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, responsible AI solutions that impact business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Experience designing AI reasoning agents
  • Hands-on with enterprise LLM apps
  • Strong NLP experience
  • Proficient in Gradient Boosting
  • 3+ years AI/ML in production

Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or related
  • 3+ years delivering AI solutions
  • 5+ years Python experience
  • Ability to solve business problems with AI
  • Excellent communication skills

Full 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 highvalue 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 multiagent and toolaugmented LLM solutions to automate complex, multistep 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 businessdriven problem solving. 

 

Qualifications: 

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

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

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Strong experience working with unstructured text and languagedriven 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 handson 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 nontechnical audiences. 

  • Experience working in crossfunctional, 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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