Principal Engineer, AI

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

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.

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.

ADT is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. ADT strives to ensure every employee and applicant feels valued. Visit us at jobs.adt.com/diversity to learn more.