Senior AI Platform Engineer - Quality & Launch Readiness

NRG Energy; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; 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 tabs

Medical/dental/vision/life coverage &

401(k) + Employer Match

Employee Resource Groups

Quarterly Innovation Weeks

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to define standards for AI quality, monitoring, and operational readiness across camera, agentic,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of software/ML/AI platform experience.
• Experience evaluating or monitoring production AI systems.
• Strong Python and data engineering skills.
• Experience with offline/online evaluation and observability.
• Strong communication and ability to set cross-team standards.

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 impact.
• Create launch-readiness gates across AI features.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering on trustworthy AI productization.
• Define reusable standards for AI quality, monitoring, safety, and readiness.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

ML engineering

LLM evaluation

Observability

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GCP/AWS

Vertex AI/SageMaker

MLflow

Datadog/OpenTelemetry

Job description

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

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Privacy, Security, and Engineering to define standards for AI quality, monitoring, and operational readiness across camera, agentic,