What You'll Do:
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.

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

What You'll Need:

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

Skills That Set You Apart

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

Workstyle: Hybrid schedule - employees work onsite a minimum of four days per week, with one remote day. Five days onsite may be required based on business needs.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to support or sponsor any U.S. immigration benefit (such as, but not limited to, H-1B, TN, STEM OPT) at this time.

Compensation & Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $119,000.00 - $221,000.00 and is based on experience and qualifications.

Certain roles are eligible for annual bonus and may include equity. These awards are allocated based on company and individual performance.

We offer employees access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and paid time off among others. Employees accrue up to 120 hours in their first year. Your accrual rate increases after your first year. We also offer 6 paid holidays.

The anticipated application end date will be on 05/20/2026.

Los Angeles Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Philadelphia Applicants: Background checks will be conducted during the employment process. Any information will be reviewed through an individualized assessment in accordance with the Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance.

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Principal Engineer - AI Focus