Observability & Evaluation Engineer

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in engineering with a focus on observability and AI/ML systems.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Python programming.
  • 5+ years of expertise in production monitoring tools like dashboards and metrics.
  • 5+ years of knowledge in evaluating LLMs and AI quality metrics.
  • 5+ years working in Agile teams and production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Implement observability and telemetry for LLM-powered applications and tools.
  • Build evaluation suites assessing agent behavior and performance metrics.
  • Develop comprehensive dashboards, alerts, and service objectives for readiness.
  • Collaborate with engineers and Product Owners to outline monitoring requirements.
  • Automate evidence collection for operational reviews and governance checkpoints.
  • Create runbooks and support documentation for agent releases.
  • Analyze production systems to recommend improvements in performance and reliability.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements encouraging a work-life balance.
  • Professional development opportunities for skill enhancement.
  • Health and wellness programs to support employee well-being.
  • Collaborative work environment promoting innovation and teamwork.
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 Description: 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.

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