NTT DATA  Services

Observability & Evaluation Engineer

NTT DATA Services • $96K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of engineering experience in observability, monitoring, test automation, or AI/ML systems.
  • 5+ years of hands-on Python programming experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with production monitoring tools including dashboards, metrics, and alerts.
  • 5+ years of understanding LLM evaluation and AI quality assessment approaches.
  • 5+ years of experience working in Agile engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Implement observability and telemetry for AI applications and services.
  • Build evaluation suites to assess agent behavior and performance metrics.
  • Develop dashboards and alerts to ensure production readiness.
  • Collaborate with engineers and product owners to set monitoring and evaluation metrics.
  • Automate operational evidence collection for release and governance checkpoints.
  • Create runbooks and documentation for priority releases.
  • Analyze production performance to recommend improvement opportunities.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contributions.
  • Flexible spending or health savings accounts.
  • Life and AD&D insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, including holidays.
  • 401(k) program with company match.
  • Employee assistance programs.
Full Job Description
Req ID: 386102

We are currently seeking a Observability & Evaluation Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Observability & Evaluation Engineer will build telemetry, tracing, dashboards, evaluation suites, alerts, service objectives, runbooks, and readiness evidence for Tachyon agent releases. This role ensures production AI systems can be monitored, evaluated, improved, and supported with clear operational visibility.

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement observability and telemetry for LLM-powered applications, agents, tools, and platform services.
  • Build evaluation suites for agent behavior, prompt quality, response quality, retrieval performance, latency, reliability, and safety signals.
  • Develop dashboards, alerts, traces, metrics, service objectives, and reporting for production readiness.
  • Work with platform engineers and Product Owners to define monitoring requirements and evaluation metrics.
  • Automate evidence collection for release readiness, operational reviews, and governance checkpoints.
  • Create runbooks and support documentation for priority agent releases.
  • Analyze production behavior and recommend improvements to reliability, performance, and quality.

Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of engineering experience with observability, monitoring, test automation, platform operations, or AI/ML systems.
  • 5+ years of strong hands-on Python experience.
  • 5+ years of Experience with dashboards, metrics, alerts, traces, logs, SLOs, and production monitoring.
  • 5+ years of Understanding of LLM evaluation, prompt evaluation, RAG evaluation, or AI quality assessment approaches.
  • 5+ years of Experience working in Agile engineering teams and production support environments.

Required Skills / Knowledge
  • Python, telemetry, tracing, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, evaluation frameworks, test automation, and production operations.
  • Understanding of LLMs, agents, RAG, prompt performance, retrieval quality, latency, and reliability metrics.
  • Experience with observability tools and open telemetry concepts.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with GenAI observability, AI evaluation tools, ML monitoring, or platform reliability engineering.
  • Experience in regulated environments with evidence and readiness documentation.
  • Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and CI/CD experience.

Expected Outcomes
  • Operational dashboards and evaluation suites for priority agent releases.
  • Clear readiness evidence, alerts, SLOs, and runbooks.
  • Improved quality, reliability, and trust in production Agentic AI systems.

#LI-NorthAmerica

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $96,800.00 - $145,200.00. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD\&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, a predecessor of NTT, started Data Communications business in 1967. NTT, following its privatization in 1985, spun off the Data Communications division as NTT DATA in 1988, which has now become the largest of the IT Services companies headquartered in Japan.
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