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This role pays more than
70%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,887–$253,812
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$244k
versus about
$212k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
48 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$166,000–$258,000
across 22 roles with salary data.
The Principal Engineer - Agentic AI Platform will lead the design, architecture, and development of a foundational platform enabling AI agents to autonomously reason and collaborate across the technology ecosystem. Working within the AI Agentic Platform domain, this role involves establishing design principles, driving cross-team technical strategy, and creating reusable architecture artifacts. Key responsibilities include defining layers for agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and multi-agent coordination while managing platform observability and safety guardrails. The candidate will utilize Python, Java, AWS, and GCP to build distributed systems, microservices, and data pipelines. Technical requirements include deep fluency with LLM APIs, RAG architectures, and embedding-based search, alongside experience with frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, and OpenAI Assistants API to solve complex commerce, inventory, and customer experience problems.