Senior Engineer, AI Enablement

Nordstrom

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,000–$220,500 / yr
Posted
46 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $202k
This role $181k
$130k most similar roles pay here $259k

This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $158,500–$246,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $181k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 30 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, AI Enablement

As a Senior Engineer - AI Enablement, you will join the AI Enablement team to design and deliver platform capabilities that allow the organization to utilize Generative AI safely and at scale. You will lead technical direction, break complex designs into actionable tasks, and mentor junior engineers while managing projects spanning multiple team members. Your daily work involves building infrastructure and tooling for internal engineering teams, optimizing databases, and designing deployment processes to minimize downtime. The role requires expert Python programming skills, hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, and proficiency in AWS cloud infrastructure. You will also leverage an understanding of AI concepts and tools like AWS AgentCore. This position focuses on solving the technical challenges of integrating LLM providers, observability systems, and developer tools into a cohesive, scalable enterprise platform.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $174600 from 40 postings across 12 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design AI platform solutions integrating developer tools, cloud services, LLM providers, and observability systems.
  • Break down complex technical designs into actionable tasks for team members to execute.
  • Build and evolve AI infrastructure and tooling using Kubernetes and AWS.
  • Implement automation to streamline the delivery of AI services across the organization.
  • Mentor junior engineers on technical approaches and career development.
  • Lead design reviews and provide actionable feedback on code and system architecture.
  • Resolve complex incidents through root cause analysis and cross-functional troubleshooting.
  • Document system designs, team processes, and key performance metrics for internal knowledge sharing.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum of 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 AWS infrastructure, including tools for deploying applications and infrastructure as code.
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts, technologies, and frameworks like AWS AgentCore.
  • Ability to design scalable systems that are testable, maintainable, efficient, and extensible.
  • Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and lead technical design reviews.

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