Principal AI Platform Engineer — Quality, Safety & Launch

NRG Energy; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free daily lunch and drinks on site

Paid holidays and flexible paid time

Employee Discounts

Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming

Medical/dental/vision/life coverage &

401(k) + Employer Match

Employee Resource Groups

Quarterly Innovation Weeks

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, seeks a Principal AI Platform Engineer to build shared evaluation infrastructure for AI systems and establish governance for safe, reliable productization. You will own datasets, evaluation suites, and observability across a range of AI features.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to define standards and launch-readiness gates, enabling scalable and responsible AI delivery across energy and home products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 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 systems.
• 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 LLM-as-judge 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

Model monitoring

Observability

AI governance

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

GCP / AWS

Vertex AI

SageMaker

MLflow

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, seeks a Principal AI Platform Engineer to build shared evaluation infrastructure for AI systems and establish governance for safe, reliable productization. You will own datasets, evaluation suites, and observability across a range of AI features.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to define standards and launch-readiness gates, enabling scalable and responsible AI delivery across energy and home products.