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Optimization Research Scientist
Vanguard
Malvern, PA
Source: Vanguard careers · View original posting
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
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Core Responsibilities
Partner directly with senior business and investment stakeholders to uncover high-value opportunities, develop + iteratively refine hypotheses, and translate ambiguous questions into structured research problems.
Formulate complex business and investment challenges as optimization problems, defining objectives, constraints, tradeoffs, decision variables, and measurable success criteria.
Build and evaluate quantitative, statistical, machine learning, simulation, and optimization frameworks that support practical decision-making in real-world investment settings.
Work with incomplete, noisy, fragmented, or evolving data to create usable research datasets, document assumptions, and assess the implications of data limitations.
Design rigorous evaluation approaches, including out-of-sample testing, simulation, backtesting, sensitivity analysis, robustness testing, and constraint validation.
Iterate closely with stakeholders, researchers, data scientists, and engineering partners to refine hypotheses, improve frameworks, and move promising research toward scalable implementation.