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Hires, coaches, evaluates, and develops crew while establishing high standards for technical excellence, collaboration, scientific rigor, and delivery. \nProvides technical leadership across applied AI research initiatives. Guides teams in framing complex problems, evaluating emerging approaches, designing experiments, developing models and prototypes, and determining which approaches warrant further investment or transition toward production. \nBuilds strategic research partnerships. Works closely with the Head of AI R&D to support and advance Vanguard’s strategic research partnership with the University of Toronto, collaborating with faculty, researchers, and students to shape joint research initiatives, provide technical leadership, and translate promising academic research into enterprise capabilities. Builds additional internal and external partnerships, where appropriate, to accelerate innovation and bring relevant advances into Vanguard. \nDrives research from exploration to enterprise application. Works with research scientists, engineers, product teams, and business partners to move promising ideas through experimentation, validation, prototyping, technology transfer, and production adoption. \nMaintains technical depth in modern AI and machine learning. Engages directly with researchers on technical approaches, experimental design, model development, evaluation, and engineering trade-offs. Critically evaluates results and helps teams navigate complex technical challenges. \nIdentifies and evaluates emerging AI capabilities. Assesses advances in areas such as generative AI, language models, agentic systems, reasoning, multimodal AI, AI evaluation, trustworthy AI, and machine learning to determine their applicability and readiness for Vanguard use cases. \nEstablishes rigorous research and evaluation practices. Guides experimental design, benchmarking, model evaluation, reproducibility, and validation to ensure research conclusions are technically sound and capabilities meet appropriate standards before broader adoption. \nPartners with engineering and product teams to accelerate research-to-production. Helps define technical requirements, success criteria, architectural considerations, and transition plans needed to mature research prototypes into scalable enterprise capabilities. \nBalances innovation with practical delivery. Manages a portfolio of research initiatives across different maturity horizons, balancing exploratory work with near-term opportunities that can deliver measurable client, crew, or enterprise value. \nAdvances responsible and secure AI development. Ensures research appropriately considers reliability, safety, security, privacy, robustness, explainability, and other responsible AI considerations throughout the research-to-production lifecycle. \nInfluences AI strategy and technology decisions. Communicates research findings, emerging technology opportunities, technical risks, and recommendations to senior technical, product, and business leaders and helps inform broader AI investments and priorities. \nParticipates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. \nMinimum Qualifications:\nMinimum of 5 years of relevant experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related technical field, including experience developing or leading advanced AI/ML solutions. \nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing research scientists, machine learning scientists, research engineers, or similarly technical talent. \nStrong technical expertise in one or more areas of modern AI and machine learning, such as generative AI, language models, agentic AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal AI, model evaluation, trustworthy AI, or AI safety and security. \nDemonstrated ability to move advanced technical work from research and experimentation into prototypes, reusable capabilities, products, or production systems. \nStrong understanding of machine learning research and development practices, including experimental design, model development, evaluation, benchmarking, statistical reasoning, and reproducibility. \nAbility to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, make sound technical decisions, and balance research exploration with practical delivery. \nDemonstrated ability to collaborate across research, engineering, product, business, risk, and other multidisciplinary teams. \nStrong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts and research findings for both technical and executive audiences. \nMaster’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or another related quantitative discipline, or equivalent combination of\nPreferred Qualifications:\nPhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field. \nExperience managing or technically leading senior scientists, researchers, or machine learning engineers. \nTrack record of research or advanced technical contributions demonstrated through deployed systems, publications, patents, open-source contributions, or other meaningful technical artifacts. \nExperience transitioning AI/ML research into scalable production capabilities. \nExperience partnering with engineering and product organizations on complex AI systems. \nExperience working in financial services or another highly regulated or high-stakes environment.\nHow We Work\nVanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. 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