Principal AI Platform Engineer — Observability & Safe AI

Vivint; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free daily lunch and drinks on site

Paid holidays and flexible paid time</

Employee/Friends/Family Discounts

Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming t ab

Medical/dental/vision/life coverage &

401(k) + Employer Match

Employee Resource Groups

Quarterly Innovation Weeks

Job summary

Vivint is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer to build the shared product-integrity layer for customer-facing AI systems. You will create evaluation, observability, safety, and launch-readiness infrastructure to ship AI features with measurable quality and impact.

You will own data governance, model monitoring, and reusable standards, collaborating with Product, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to ensure trustworthy AI productization across camera, agentic, personalization, multimodal,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering, ML engineering, or AI platform experience.
• Experience evaluating, deploying, or monitoring production AI systems.
• Strong Python and data engineering skills.
• Experience with offline/online evaluation, data quality, model monitoring, or observability.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, prompt evaluation, model regression testing, or safety guardrails.
• Strong communication skills and ability to set standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build shared evaluation infrastructure for models, prompts, agents, and multimodal AI systems.
• Own golden datasets, regression suites, offline and online evals, and governance.
• Develop observability for model quality, latency, cost, drift, safety, and customer impact.
• Create launch-readiness gates for AI features across camera, agentic, personalization, multimodal, and energy products.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering on trustworthy AI productization.
• Define reusable standards for AI quality, monitoring, safety, and operational readiness.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

LLM evaluation

Observability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/DS

Tools

GCP/AWS

Vertex AI

SageMaker

MLflow

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Vivint is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer to build the shared product-integrity layer for customer-facing AI systems. You will create evaluation, observability, safety, and launch-readiness infrastructure to ship AI features with measurable quality and impact.

You will own data governance, model monitoring, and reusable standards, collaborating with Product, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to ensure trustworthy AI productization across camera, agentic, personalization, multimodal,