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Principal AI​/ML Engineer

Job in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 28245, USA
Listing for: Vanguard
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-13
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Software Architect
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 240000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Key Responsibilities:

AI Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Define and lead the technical architecture for enterprise-scale AI and ML platforms.

  • Design scalable, resilient, and reusable AI systems capable of supporting 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.

Productize AI Research
  • Partner closely with AI researchers to transform cutting-edge prototypes into production-grade solutions.

  • Lead efforts to operationalize advanced AI capabilities across areas such as:

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Trustworthy and Responsible AI

  • Agentic AI Systems

  • Establish repeatable pathways that accelerate innovation-to-production cycles.

  • Ensure production solutions maintain scientific rigor while meeting enterprise engineering standards.

  • Bridge the gap between research breakthroughs and sustainable business value.

Engineering Excellence & Scalability
  • Solve the organization’s most complex AI engineering and scalability challenges.

  • Design systems that operate reliably at enterprise scale while balancing performance, latency, governance, security, and cost.

  • Drive adoption of MLOps, LLMOps, and AI platform engineering best practices.

  • Improve the robustness, maintainability, observability, and operational readiness of our AI products.

  • Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks that impact scale, reliability, or client experience.

  • Raise standards through coaching, architecture reviews, design guidance, and technical leadership.

Production Reliability & Operational Leadership
  • Own the operational excellence, reliability, performance and availability of our products.

  • Lead technical response and resolution efforts for complex production incidents, performance degradation, model failures, and system outages.

  • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for the team’s most challenging production challenges.

  • Establish best practices for AI system monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and service-level objectives (SLOs).

  • Mentor and lead junior engineers in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, operational decision-making, and incident response.

  • Drive post-incident reviews focused on learning, continuous improvement, and long-term corrective actions.

  • Develop operational processes that ensure AI solutions remain secure, scalable, performant, and reliable for business-critical use cases.

  • Partner with product, infrastructure, security, and support teams to proactively identify operational risks and continuously improve service reliability.

Mentorship & Thought Leadership
  • Mentor AI and ML engineers within the team.

  • Foster a culture of technical excellence and operational ownership where engineers are accountable not only for building systems, but also for running and supporting them successfully in production.

  • Represent our team as a thought leader in scalable AI deployment, operational excellence, and responsible AI practices.

Required Qualifications
  • 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, Dev Ops, and cloud technologies.

  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead teams through highly complex technical and operational challenges.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience…

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