Engineer 1, Agentic AI - Inventory Solutions

Nordstrom

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$104,500–$162,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago
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About Nordstrom

Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail

Nordstrom currently has 60 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$258,000 across 23 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineer 1, Agentic AI - Inventory Solutions

JOB TITLE: Engineer 1: Agentic AI - Inventory Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) As an Engineer 1 on the Inventory Integration Systems team, you will build agentic AI solutions to manage multi-market, multi-channel inventory truth. You will work under senior guidance to implement agent components, write tests, and develop tool integrations for Jira, Slack, Confluence, and internal inventory APIs. Your daily work involves creating prompt templates, retrieval steps, and evaluation scripts to ensure agent behavior is safe and accurate. You will utilize context engineering to ground agents in audit records, ledger states, and vendor data. Required skills include professional software engineering experience, AI fluency with LLM APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, and core CS fundamentals like data structures and algorithms. You will also work with frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or the Claude Agent SDK.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $179250 from 43 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Implement individual components of agentic inventory solutions including tool integrations, prompt templates, and retrieval steps.
  • Write clean, well-tested code and document technical work clearly for production inventory systems.
  • Build and run evaluation scripts and offline benchmarks to ensure agent behavior is safe and accurate.
  • Add basic instrumentation such as logging, metrics, and alerts to the systems you build.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and design reviews to debug issues and surface technical trade-offs.
  • Follow engineering and security standards for the secure handling of sensitive inventory and vendor data.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand how agentic AI can reduce manual audit and reconciliation efforts.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, including internships, or a relevant certification.
  • Must have hands-on exposure to LLMs or foundation model APIs through coursework, projects, internships, or professional experience.
  • Must possess solid CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
  • Must have familiarity with RESTful APIs, JSON, version control (Git), and basic software testing practices.
  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative, feedback-seeking mindset.
  • Must be willing to learn modern agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or the Claude Agent SDK.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, or backend languages like Java/Spring Boot or Python (preferred).
  • Exposure to AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, or backend databases like Spanner and Postgres (preferred).

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