Sr Software Engineer, Video Intelligence

NRG Energy; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401K

Flexible spending accounts

Annual bonus

Job summary

NRG Energy is seeking a Sr Video Intelligence Engineer to advance video understanding capabilities. This role focuses on developing video-language models, improving AI video search, and generating useful insights from video content. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in software development or a related field and strong skills in Python.

The position offers a salary range between $150K and $180K and includes opportunities for additional bonuses, medical benefits, 401K, and more.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development, applied science or ML engineering.
• Experience with LLMs, vision-language models, or generative AI systems.
• Experience processing and analyzing video content at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own VLM strategy, video-language understanding, temporality reasoning and event understanding.
• Build and evaluate systems to generate useful natural-language video descriptions.
• Develop production evaluation methods for AI Video Search.

Skills

Software development

Applied science

Machine Learning engineering

Python software engineering

Video processing

Deploying AI services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Job description

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. In this role, you will be responsible to:

• 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; or
• 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

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.

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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