Principal Engineer - AI Focus

ADT • Whitpain Township, PA

4h

About The Position

As a Principal Engineer with an AI focus, you’ll play a key role in shaping how AI is applied across ADT’s security products and engineering practices. You’ll work with a distributed platform team to bring consumer‑facing, AI‑enabled experiences from concept through launch.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of hands‑on, production experience delivering AI or machine learning solutions
• Strong experience with deep learning, computer vision, neural networks, and model optimization
• Experience with video analysis techniques such as object detection and tracking, action recognition, video segmentation, temporal modeling, and scene understanding
• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL pipelines, feature engineering, data quality, and scalable data architectures
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Rust, Python, or C++, with strong version control practices (Git)
• Experience using AI and ML frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit‑learn, and OpenCV
• Experience working in large‑scale, distributed systems
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and GPU optimization
• Ability to operate with high ownership and strong technical judgment

Nice To Haves

• Experience working across multiple programming languages
• Platform, infrastructure, or security system experience
• Exposure to applying AI within regulated or mission-critical environments

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end development of AI products, from research and prototyping through production deployment
• Design and implement advanced video analysis systems using computer vision and deep learning techniques
• Develop robust data models and data pipelines to support large‑scale AI and machine learning applications
• Optimize model performance for accuracy, latency, and scalability in production environments
• Design and build solutions within large, complex platform systems
• Build and maintain MLOps infrastructure to support model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Write high‑quality, production‑ready code in a hands‑on, senior individual contributor role
• Help set technical direction and influence architecture and platform decisions
• Partner with cross‑functional teams including product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and deliver solutions
• Stay current with emerging trends in computer vision, video understanding, and AI technologies
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decision‑making across the team
• Explore and apply AI‑driven improvements to software development workflows and engineering processes

Benefits

• access to healthcare benefits
• a 401(k) plan and company match
• short-term and long-term disability coverage
• life insurance
• wellbeing benefits
• paid time off (accrue up to 120 hours in their first year, accrual rate increases after first year)
• 6 paid holidays
• annual bonus (for certain roles)
• equity (for certain roles)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees