Senior Engineer 2, AI Agentic Solutions

Nordstrom

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Seattle, WA
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75 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer 2, AI Agentic Solutions

The Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions joins the AI Agentic Solutions team to design and build end-to-end agentic AI solutions across commerce, personalization, inventory, and customer service. As a lead individual contributor, you will translate ambiguous business problems into technical designs, owning orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and integration with enterprise systems. You will apply context engineering to balance token economics and latency while developing evaluations, guardrails, and memory management for agents. Key responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, leading code reviews, and managing technical trade-offs for scalability. Required skills include Python, AWS or GCP, and experience with LLM APIs, RAG architectures, and frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI. You will solve complex problems involving multi-agent orchestration, task decomposition, and durable conversation state management.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build end-to-end agentic solutions including orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and enterprise system integrations.
  • Apply context engineering to manage token economics, latency, and decision quality across RAG patterns and dynamic prompts.
  • Develop and own evaluation frameworks and safety guardrails using offline benchmarks and online production telemetry.
  • Architect memory and state management approaches for long-term conversation state and multi-session reasoning.
  • Integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, and vector stores into production services using agentic frameworks.
  • Lead design and code reviews to maintain high standards for quality, testability, and extensibility.
  • Define key metrics and observability patterns to drive accountability for performance, cost, and security.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership in cross-functional discussions with business and infrastructure teams.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering complex, scalable distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, foundation model APIs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and embedding-based search in production.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating AI agents or agentic workflows including tool-use, orchestration, and downstream integration.
  • Proficiency in Python and cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks and safety guardrails for LLM-based systems.
  • Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or OpenAI Assistants API.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with RESTful services, event-driven architectures, and backend databases (preferred).

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