Principal, AI Platform Engineer at Vivint
UT, UT
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Jul 15, 2026
UT, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on building the shared infrastructure that ensures AI features are safe, reliable, and ready to ship. Day-to-day work spans creating evaluation frameworks, observability pipelines, and launch-readiness gates for production AI systems — including large language models, computer vision, and agentic products. Suited to a seasoned engineer with deep experience in ML platform work, model monitoring, and cross-team quality standards.
Senior level · 10+ years · Provo-Orem, UT · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 30 people in the Provo-Orem, UT area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10–45
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,095 (middle half $101,688–$168,179).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Principal AI Platform Engineer' but the actual scope — owning evaluation infrastructure, observability, and launch-readiness for AI features — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true org-wide Principal authority. The 10+ years requirement is ordinary for a Senior engineer, and no genuine org-wide technical authority or cross-org architectural mandate is described beyond setting team-level standards.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role sits at the boundary between Software Developers (15-1252, building shared AI platform infrastructure) and Data Scientists (15-2051, ML evaluation and model quality). The primary day-to-day work — building evaluation and observability systems — leans toward platform/software engineering.
Location is inferred as Vivint's headquarters in Provo/Lehi, UT (Provo-Orem CBSA). The posting references an on-site office environment with on-site perks, confirming it is not remote.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field' appears in the Required Qualifications section with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause.
Skills under Preferred Qualifications (GCP/AWS, Vertex AI/SageMaker, MLflow, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) are listed as a single 'or similar tooling' group; the most commonly named tools are captured individually as preferred.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data engineering.
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