State Street Corporation

Senior Data Scientist – Agentic AI / Graph/ LLM Science, Vice President

State Street Corporation$120K — $202K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning or NLP.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, GenAI or NLP at production scale.
  • Strong understanding of graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, RDF, DGL) and knowledge graph construction.
  • Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn).
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps practices.
  • Prior work on agentic AI is a big plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own BU specific problem statements and objectives to deliver value leveraging agentic AI workflows and domain LLMs.
  • Conduct LLM research and fine-tuning including evaluating foundational models and prompt optimization.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and taxonomies, along with frontier model evaluation and buildout.
  • Create and maintain knowledge graphs and embeddings for semantic search and reasoning.
  • Build an inference engine for scalable, low latency serving for tuned models and cost optimization.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy scalable AI solutions in production.
  • Conduct experiments and evaluations to benchmark model performance and ensure robustness.

Benefits

  • Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
  • Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability.
  • Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and family care responsibilities.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
  • Eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation awards.
  • Flexible work-life support and paid volunteer days.
Full Job Description

Who we are looking for:

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled Data Scientist to join our AI/ML science team as part of the Agentic AI platform buildout. The Science pillar advances LLM research, fine‑tuning, evaluation frameworks, anomaly detection, and frontier model development—partnering closely with Platform Engineering, SRE, and Pods/Business Engagement to ship production-grade agents and platform features.

This role will focus on applied research and product-oriented data science requirements – designing and validating domain-specific LLM solutions, building evaluation taxonomies and metrics and operationalizing fine-tuning/tooling for business use cases.  

What you will be responsible for

  • Own BU specific problem statements and objectives to deliver value leveraging agentic AI workflows and domain LLMs

  • LLM research and fine-tuning including evaluating foundational models, fine-tuning and prompt optimization with robust data curation and governance alignment

  • Evaluation frameworks & taxonomies and Frontier model evaluation and buildout

  • Develop and maintain knowledge graphs and embeddings for semantic search and reasoning

  • Inference engine for scalable, low latency serving for tuned models, agentic workflows and cost optimization

  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy scalable AI solutions in production environments.

  • Conduct experiments and evaluations to benchmark model performance and ensure robustness

  • Opportunity to Research, document and socialize

Education & Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field.

  • 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning or NLP.

  • Hands-on experience with LLM’s, GenAI or NLP at production scale

  • Strong understanding of graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, RDF, DGL) and knowledge graph construction.

  • Proficiency in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn).

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps practices.

  • Prior work on agentic AI is a big plus

Salary Range:

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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