Lead ML Engineer – AI Platform & Strategy

TaskVerse; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Leadership development opportunities

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to guide a team designing, deploying, and scaling AI/ML solutions for the Financial Advisory Services business. You will partner with Product Management, Data Science, Architecture, and Technology to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities.

This hands-on leadership role covers end-to-end delivery, from architecture planning to monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement, ensuring security and regulatory compliance while advancing client

Qualifications

• Eight+ years in machine learning, data engineering, or related roles with leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of ML algorithms, statistical modeling, data analysis and optimization.
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines and deploying models in production.
• Excellent leadership and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership in hiring, coaching, performance management, and talent development within the AI/ML team.
• Collaborate with Architects to define AI/ML solution architectures aligned with business goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver AI solutions from concept to production.
• Establish engineering best practices and reusable frameworks to improve scalability and delivery.
• Oversee data/feature/model pipelines for reliable AI/ML solutions.
• Apply ML, statistics and experimentation to operationalize predictive capabilities.
• Ensure governance, security and regulatory standards throughout the lifecycle.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

AI leadership

ML algorithms

Data pipelines

Production deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Graduate degree preferred

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to guide a team designing, deploying, and scaling AI/ML solutions for the Financial Advisory Services business. You will partner with Product Management, Data Science, Architecture, and Technology to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities.

This hands-on leadership role covers end-to-end delivery, from architecture planning to monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement, ensuring security and regulatory compliance while advancing client