Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
We are looking for an Application Engineer Technical Lead-I to join the Operations team, a strategic platform engineering group focused on building AI-enabled operational systems. The role involves developing AI-powered applications, dashboards, and agent-based solutions that proactively monitor environments, detect issues, improve operational efficiency, and support product teams across the ecosystem. The ideal candidate should have strong coding and problem-solving skills, hands-on exposure to GenAI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and cloud technologies such as AWS. This role offers an opportunity to work on real-world AI engineering use cases, collaborate with multiple engineering teams, and contribute to automation, monitoring, incident support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
4.Work with GenAI, LLMs, RAG frameworks, and AI agents.
6.Collaborate with Product, SRE, Environment, Rapid Response, and other engineering teams.
7.Analyze issues, propose solutions, and drive implementation independently 8.Participate in CI/CD and deployment activities
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
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