Senior AI/ML Scientist

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 not offering visa sponsorship for this position.