Sr Software Engineer, Video Intelligence

NRG Energy; Seattle (WA); Híbrido; USD 150 000 - 180 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Health benefits

401K

Annual bonus

Flexible spending accounts

Resumo da oferta

Nrg Bluewater Wind is seeking a Sr Video Intelligence Engineer to enhance video understanding with advanced capabilities such as summarization and event reasoning. This role encompasses ownership of video-language models and collaboration with diverse teams to transition models from research to production.

The ideal candidate will have significant software engineering experience, proficiency in Python, and familiarity with AI model deployment. The position requires an in-office presence on a hybrid schedule in Seattle, WA, promising a dynamic work environment with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering.
• Strong understanding of event detection, summarization, and semantic understanding.
• Experience deploying AI services into production.

Responsabilidades

• Own VLM strategy, video-language understanding, and event understanding.
• Improve AI Video Search and reduce false alerts.
• Guide architecture decisions for hybrid inference paths.

Conhecimentos

Python software engineering

Experience with LLMs

AI/ML development

Video content analysis

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Ferramentas

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About This Role

We are seeking a Sr Video Intelligence Engineer to advance video understanding. This role will build video-language, summarization, context, and event‑reasoning capabilities that improve camera intelligence and customer trust.

Responsibilities

• Own VLM strategy, video-language understanding, temporal video reasoning, event understanding, and multimodal embeddings.
• Improve AI Video Search, video summarization, alert relevance, recognition support, and false‑alert reduction.
• Build and evaluate systems that generate useful natural‑language descriptions, insights, and summaries from video.
• Partner with AI, platform, product, and app teams to move models from research to production.
• Develop production evaluation methods for precision, recall, grounding, latency, safety, and customer usefulness.
• Guide architecture decisions across cloud, edge, and hybrid inference paths for video intelligence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 5+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering;
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related technical field, and 2+ years of professional experience in software development, applied science, or ML engineering.
• Experience with LLMs, vision-language models, multimodal AI, or generative AI systems.
• Strong Python software engineering skills.
• Experience processing, analyzing, or serving video content at scale.
• Familiarity with event detection, summarization, semantic understanding, embeddings, or model evaluation.
• Experience deploying AI services into production with Git and CI/CD workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience generating natural-language descriptions, summaries, or searchable representations from video.
• Experience with multimodal foundation models, temporal video understanding, re-identification, or vector retrieval.
• Experience improving precision/recall, reducing false alerts, or evaluating customer-facing camera AI.
• Experience with smart home, security camera, IoT, edge/cloud, or real-time inference architectures.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, or production model monitoring.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary range for this position is: $150K to $180K. The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.

Position requires in-office presence in Seattle, WA on a hybrid schedule for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a work from home day on Friday. The position will start remote and then will move into the hybrid schedule.

EEO Statement

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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