Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$166,000–$258,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago

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This role $212k
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This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $168,593–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $212k versus about $207k 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 34 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $154,000–$239,250 across 34 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

As a Senior Engineer 2 on Nordstrom's AI Agentic Platform team, you will lead the design and development of core platform capabilities such as agent orchestration layers, tool-use pipelines, memory systems, and APIs that enable product teams to deploy AI agents. You will own end-to-end solution design for complex components, integrate LLM APIs and embedding models into services, and make technical decisions balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability. Responsibilities include leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring adherence to Nordstrom’s engineering standards while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable AI systems. The role requires 6+ years of experience in building scalable distributed systems, proficiency in Python or Java, and expertise in cloud-native development on AWS or GCP, along with a strong background in AI fluency and platform engineering.

What you'll do

  • Design and build core AI Agentic Platform capabilities, including agent orchestration layers and APIs.
  • Own end-to-end solution design for platform components, ensuring full integration across teams.
  • Apply AI fluency to integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, vector stores, and RAG patterns into services.
  • Make technical trade-offs between short-term delivery needs and long-term platform scalability.
  • Lead design and code reviews, providing actionable feedback to maintain high quality standards.
  • Design key metrics and observability patterns for platform components; ensure performance and security.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in designing complex, scalable distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience working with LLM APIs and embedding models in production environments.
  • Proficiency in Python or Java, with strong grasp of cloud-native development on AWS/GCP.
  • Experience with RESTful services, event-driven architectures, and backend databases (SQL/NoSQL).
  • Demonstrated ability to design systems balancing short-term delivery needs and long-term scalability.
  • Strong emphasis on building observability into systems for real-time monitoring and performance accountability.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, business, infrastructure, and security stakeholders.

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