Production-Grade Quantitative Modeling Engineer

The Vanguard Group; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Vanguard Group in Malvern, PA is seeking a quantitative software developer to design, build, and operate production investment systems. You will translate research into scalable, production-grade capabilities, with a focus on reliability, reproducibility, and governance.

This role emphasizes ML/AI-enabled investment solutions, GenAI, and knowledge systems, plus building end-to-end pipelines from research to production in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quantitative software development or related field.
• Python demonstrated in production-quality software.
• Experience with ML/Statistical modeling and production deployment.
• Cloud-based development or deployment experience.
• Strong system design, testing, version control, CI/CD, observability.
• Strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and operates production quantitative investment systems.
• Designs, engineers, tests, deploys, and supports software affecting investment decisions.
• Translates research into scalable, production-grade investment capabilities with reliability.
• Engineers research-to-production model delivery pipelines.
• Builds architecture to move models and data from research to production with CI/CD, MLOps, governance.
• Develops advanced machine learning and AI-enabled investment capabilities.
• Designs and implements GenAI, retrieval, and knowledge systems for research productivity.
• Establishes software engineering and quantitative development standards.
• Develops reusable frameworks, libraries, and platforms with data lineage and observability.
• Advances investing through emerging AI/ML technologies.

Skills

Python

ML/AI

Cloud Technologies

Software Engineering

Quantitative Analysis

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/ML/Statistics/Math/Engineering

Job description

The Vanguard Group in Malvern, PA is seeking a quantitative software developer to design, build, and operate production investment systems. You will translate research into scalable, production-grade capabilities, with a focus on reliability, reproducibility, and governance.

This role emphasizes ML/AI-enabled investment solutions, GenAI, and knowledge systems, plus building end-to-end pipelines from research to production in a hybrid work environment.