Data Scientist, Specialist

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience designing AI agents that can reason, plan, and act across systems.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise-level LLM applications, including RAG and tool orchestration.
  • Strong background in NLP, particularly with unstructured text and language workflows.
  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience delivering AI/ML solutions in production environments.
  • Minimum of 5 years of hands-on Python experience; familiarity with distributed data processing is advantageous.
  • Proven ability to solve business-oriented problems with AI.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex ideas to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize business problems suitable for AI solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Translate business needs into actionable AI use cases and measurable success criteria.
  • Focus on achieving business outcomes beyond just performance metrics of AI models.
  • Architect and develop AI systems that can autonomously reason and perform actions across various data sources.
  • Design solutions that augment LLMs to automate intricate, multi-step processes.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, and performant.
  • Implement robust evaluation and monitoring mechanisms for AI systems, addressing risks such as bias and failure modes.
  • Mentor team members on applied AI and strategizing AI-driven problem-solving initiatives.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for this position.
Full Job Description

Responsibilities:

Solve Business Problems with AI

  • Partner with business stakeholders toidentify, frame, and prioritize highvalue problems that can be addressed using Agentic AI, LLMs, and NLP.
  • Translate business needs intoclear AI use cases, success metrics, and delivery plans.
  • Focus onbusiness outcomes, not just model performance.

Design & Build Agentic AI Solutions

  • Architect and developagentic 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 arereliable, explainable, and governed for enterprise use.

Scalable & Responsible AI

  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy AI solutions withscalability, 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 atrusted AI advisor, helping teams understand where Agentic AI and LLMs add valueand 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.
  • 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.
  • Strong ability tosolve 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 offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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