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Vanguard

Principal AI/ML Engineer

Vanguard

. Define and lead technical architecture for enterprise-scale AI and ML platforms .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeUnited StatesLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and leading the architecture of enterprise-scale AI and ML platforms, focusing on operational excellence, scalability, and responsible AI practices. Proven ability to mentor teams and drive technical decisions that enhance system performance and reliability.

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AI And ML System DesignMLOps Best PracticesTechnical LeadershipObservability And MonitoringLarge Language Models

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringMachine Learning EngineeringAI EngineeringReliability EngineeringCloud TechnologiesModel ServingInference OptimizationAI InfrastructureArchitectural StandardsIncident Management
Soft Skills
MentoringCoachingProblem-SolvingCollaborationTechnical Guidance
Industry Keywords
Trustworthy AIResponsible AIAI GovernanceModel Risk ManagementProduction EnvironmentsOperational ReadinessScalable AI DeploymentMulti-Agent WorkflowsPerformance DegradationCapacity Planning

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and lead technical architecture for enterprise-scale AI and ML platforms
  • Design scalable, resilient, and reusable AI systems for mission-critical workloads
  • Establish architectural standards, engineering patterns, and best practices for AI deployment and operations
  • Drive technical decisions around model serving, inference optimization, agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, observability, and AI infrastructure
  • Partner with AI researchers to transform prototypes into production-grade solutions
  • Operationalize advanced AI capabilities including LLMs, Trustworthy and Responsible AI, and agentic AI systems
  • Establish repeatable pathways to accelerate innovation-to-production cycles
  • Solve complex AI engineering and scalability challenges
  • Design systems balancing performance, latency, governance, security, and cost
  • Drive adoption of MLOps, LLMOps, and AI platform engineering best practices
  • Improve robustness, maintainability, observability, and operational readiness of AI products
  • Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks affecting scale, reliability, or client experience
  • Provide coaching, architecture reviews, design guidance, and technical leadership
  • Own operational excellence, reliability, performance, and availability of products
  • Lead response and resolution for production incidents, performance degradation, model failures, and system outages
  • Serve as senior technical escalation point for challenging production issues
  • Establish practices for monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and SLOs
  • Mentor junior engineers in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, operational decision-making, and incident response
  • Lead post-incident reviews and long-term corrective actions
  • Develop operational processes that keep AI solutions secure, scalable, performant, and reliable
  • Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and support teams to identify operational risks and improve service reliability
  • Mentor AI and ML engineers and foster technical excellence and operational ownership
  • Represent the team as a thought leader in scalable AI deployment, operational excellence, and responsible AI practices

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, AI engineering, or related technical disciplines
  • Deep expertise designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale AI and ML systems in production environments
  • Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from concept through deployment and ongoing operations
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, reliability engineering, observability, ML Ops, DevOps, and cloud technologies
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead teams through highly complex technical and operational challenges
  • Preferred: Experience with foundation models, Large Language Models, and agentic AI architectures
  • Preferred: Experience deploying agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows
  • Preferred: Experience with Trustworthy AI, Responsible AI, AI governance, or model risk management frameworks
  • Preferred: Experience optimizing large-scale inference systems and AI infrastructure
  • Preferred: Experience working in highly regulated environments and mission-critical production systems
  • Must be able to work without employer-sponsored visa; Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid working model enabling flexibility, in-person learning, collaboration, and connection
  • Opportunities to work directly with world-class AI researchers
  • Opportunity to develop deep expertise in operating advanced AI systems at scale
  • Collaboration with leaders across research, product, and engineering