Principal, AI Platform Engineer
NRG Energy · Utah, United States · Yesterday
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer to build the shared product-integrity layer for customer-facing AI systems. This role will create the evaluation, observability, safety, and launch-readiness infrastructure needed to ship AI features with measurable quality, reliability, and customer impact.
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.
Requirements
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LLM-as-judge, agent tracing, multimodal evals, golden datasets, or automated regression suites
- Experience with GCP/AWS, Vertex AI, SageMaker, MLflow, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Private Cloud or similar tooling
- Experience with privacy-aware AI systems, customer trust metrics, or launch-readiness processes
- Experience supporting computer vision, GenAI, recommendation, or edge AI products
- Experience building developer platforms or internal AI tooling
Benefits
Free daily lunch and drinks on site
Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
Onsite health clinic, gym, gaming tables
Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
401(k) + Employer Match
Employee Resource Groups
Quarterly Innovation Weeks
Schedule
This position is full-time.
Pay
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.