Jobs · Engineering · Washington

Sr Software Engineer, AI Platform

NRG Energy · Washington, United States · 1 wk ago
Engineering$150k–$180k/yrFull-time

About the role

We are seeking a Sr 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. In this role, you will be responsible to:

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.
  • Create 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

  • 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

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

Benefits

  • Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
  • Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
  • Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline
  • 401(k) + Employer Match
  • Employee Resource Groups

Pay

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.

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