Senior Engineer, AI Enablement

Nordstrom

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On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
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Full-time
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92 days ago
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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 60 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, AI Enablement

The Senior Engineer - AI Enablement joins the AI Enablement team to design and deliver platform capabilities that allow the organization to use Generative AI safely and at scale. This role involves owning work across multiple engineers, breaking complex designs into actionable tasks, and mentoring junior team members. Key responsibilities include building AI infrastructure, designing deployment processes for software and networks, and optimizing databases. The successful candidate will utilize Python, Kubernetes, and AWS to develop scalable solutions. They must navigate technical trade-offs between short-term needs and long-term business objectives while integrating with LLM providers and observability systems. The role focuses on solving the technical challenges of AI enablement, improving developer productivity, and ensuring the performance and security of feature work across the enterprise.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $179250 from 43 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design AI platform solutions that integrate with developer tools, cloud services, LLM providers, and observability systems.
  • Break down complex technical designs into actionable tasks for engineers and own systems spanning multiple team members.
  • Build and evolve AI infrastructure and tooling using Kubernetes and AWS to serve engineering teams.
  • Implement automation to streamline the delivery of AI services and drive measurable business outcomes.
  • Mentor junior engineers on technical approaches, career development, and high-quality code standards.
  • Lead design reviews and provide actionable feedback to improve the quality of team output.
  • Resolve complex technical incidents and facilitate cross-functional troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Document system designs, team processes, and key performance metrics to support knowledge sharing.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Expert programming skills in Python to write clean, maintainable, and extensible code.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience with frameworks and tools that deploy applications to AWS, including infrastructure as code.
  • Understanding of AI concepts and technologies, including tools like AWS AgentCore or similar platforms.
  • Ability to design systems that are testable, maintainable, efficient, and extensible.
  • Analytical and debugging skills applied to complex technical challenges.

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