Principal Engineer, Agentic Applications

Gap Inc

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San Francisco, CA
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Gap Inc. is a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children

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TL;DR · Principal Engineer, Agentic Applications

As a Principal Engineer, Agentic Applications, you will join the engineering leadership team to build and ship AI/ML-backed multi-agent workflows that transform structured and unstructured data into production decisions for the global supply chain. You will own technical standards, including interoperability protocols like MCP/A2A, while architecting agent-ready data designs and co-owning the reference architecture for product-to-market journeys. Your daily work involves building complex systems to automate tasks such as generating BOMs, negotiating RFPs, and allocating materials across design and sourcing. You will utilize technologies including LangGraph, Vertex Model Garden, and LLM-as-judge evaluation gates. The role focuses on solving the challenge of moving from manual processes to autonomous, AI-native operations within apparel design tools, PLM systems, procurement, and logistics by creating reliable, model-agnostic agentic frameworks for large-scale enterprise environments.

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What you'll do

  • Build and ship AI/ML-backed multi-agent workflows that convert design data and fabric specs into production decisions.
  • Establish engineering standards, integration patterns, and interoperability protocols for agentic solutions across supply chain systems.
  • Define technical "definition-of-done" using automated evaluation gates like LLM-as-judge and golden datasets.
  • Design the strategy for ingesting and structuring raw data into reliable, AI-ready products for multi-agent loops.
  • Co-design the agentic reference architecture, including orchestrator patterns and tool contracts, in a model-agnostic framework.
  • Deploy multi-agent systems to automate complex tasks like generating BOMs, negotiating RFPs, and allocating materials.
  • Manage FinOps by implementing cost-aware routing across different models based on latency and capability.
  • Mentor engineers by writing code alongside them and leading technical architecture reviews with senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of hands-on experience in software, data, or ML engineering.
  • Proven experience building and shipping production AI/ML systems, specifically LLM-based agents or multi-agent orchestration.
  • Track record as a Staff, Principal, or Architect level engineer at a large, complex enterprise setting technical standards.
  • Experience with orchestration patterns such as LangGraph or custom orchestrators.
  • Hands-on depth with at least one major cloud AI stack, preferably GCP/Vertex.
  • Experience building LLM-as-judge pipelines, golden datasets, or similar quality gates for production AI systems.
  • Ability to write and review code while leading technical architecture and standards.

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