Engineer II: AI Agentic Solutions

Nordstrom

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$121,500–$188,500 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $155k
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This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $161,500–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $204k for comparable roles.

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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 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineer II: AI Agentic Solutions

Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions joins the AI Agentic Solutions team to design and build end-to-end agentic solutions across commerce, personalization, inventory, and customer service. This role involves developing agentic components such as tool-use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic while managing context engineering within token, latency, and cost constraints. The engineer will integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, vector stores, and agentic frameworks into production services while building evaluations and guardrails to ensure safety and reliability. Required skills include experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, and modern frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or the Claude Agent SDK. Candidates must possess strong CS fundamentals, proficiency in cloud-native development on AWS or GCP, and experience with Python or other production-grade stacks to solve complex problems in retail and e-commerce environments.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $174600 from 40 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build agentic components including tool-use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic.
  • Perform context engineering to optimize what agents see while managing token limits, latency, and costs.
  • Integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, vector stores, and agentic frameworks into production services.
  • Develop evaluations and guardrails using offline benchmarks and online telemetry to ensure safety and reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to debug, profile, and perform root-cause analysis for system issues.
  • Lead work processes and design reviews while providing technical guidance to teammates on specific components.
  • Log events and publish metrics to monitor systems and ensure proper access control for sensitive data.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Must possess AI fluency with hands-on experience using LLM or foundation model APIs.
  • Must have experience with prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
  • Must have experience building or contributing to agentic workflows, including tool-use and orchestration.
  • Must understand how to structure context for agents within token, latency, and cost constraints.
  • Must possess solid CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
  • Must have knowledge of cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP with at least one production-grade tech stack.
  • Must be familiar with modern agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or OpenAI Assistants API.

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