Senior AI/ML Scientist

Vanguard is a financial services company focused on the long-term financial wellbeing of its clients. The Senior AI/ML Scientist will identify and solve high-value business problems using Agentic AI, LLMs, and NLP, while designing reliable, explainable, scalable, and governed AI solutions. The role also provides AI thought leadership, develops best practices, and mentors colleagues on applied AI and business-driven problem solving.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify, frame, and prioritize high‑value problems that can be addressed using Agentic AI, LLMs, and NLP
• Translate business needs into clear AI use cases, success metrics, and delivery plans
• Focus on business outcomes, not just model performance
• 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
• 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
• 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