Senior Engineer, AI Agentic Solutions

Nordstrom

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Seattle, WA
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29 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

Nordstrom currently has 30 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, AI Agentic Solutions

Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions joins the AI Agentic Solutions team to transform retail innovation into impactful products across commerce, personalization, inventory, and customer service. As a lead individual contributor, you will design and build end-to-end agentic solutions involving orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and enterprise system integration. You will manage context engineering for RAG patterns, develop evaluation frameworks and safety guardrails, and architect memory and state management systems to ensure reliable performance. The role requires expertise in Python, LLM APIs from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, and agentic frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI. You will navigate technical trade-offs regarding token economics, latency, and scalability while mentoring junior engineers. This role solves complex problems by building intelligent agents that automate workflows and improve the customer experience within a large-scale retail environment.

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What you'll do

  • Translate ambiguous business problems into end-to-end agentic solutions with clear success criteria and measurable outcomes.
  • Design and build core agentic systems including orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and integration with enterprise systems.
  • Apply context engineering to balance token economics, latency, and decision quality across RAG patterns and prompt assembly.
  • Develop and manage evaluation frameworks and guardrails to ensure AI solutions are safe, reliable, and accurate.
  • Architect memory and state management systems to enable agents to reason across sessions and workflows.
  • Integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, and vector stores into production services using modern agentic frameworks.
  • Make technical trade-offs regarding scalability, infrastructure costs, and model selection for long-term business goals.
  • Lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and provide feedback on code quality and system architecture.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in designing and delivering complex, scalable distributed systems.
  • Must possess AI fluency with hands-on experience in LLMs, foundation model APIs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and embedding-based search.
  • Must have experience building and operating AI agents or agentic workflows including tool-use, orchestration, and integration with downstream systems.
  • Must be able to design evaluation frameworks and safety guardrails for LLM-based systems using offline benchmarks and online telemetry.
  • Must have experience with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or OpenAI Assistants API.
  • Must be proficient in Python and possess a strong grasp of cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP.
  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Must hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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