3 days ago
Base Salary
$105k - $163k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement agent components, tool integrations, prompt templates, and retrieval steps for inventory solutions.
- Build and run evaluation scripts and offline benchmarks for agent safety, accuracy, and reliability.
- Write clean, well-tested code and document implementation decisions.
- Apply context engineering to ground agents in audit records, ledger state, and vendor data.
- Participate in on-call rotations, design reviews, debugging, and trade-off analysis.
- Add logging, metrics, and alerts while following engineering and security standards.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to reduce manual audit and reconciliation effort.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of professional software engineering experience, including internships, or a relevant certification such as a bootcamp.
- Hands-on exposure to LLMs or foundation model APIs through coursework, projects, internships, or professional work.
- Understanding of agentic AI concepts such as tool use, context retrieval, and agent actions.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, RESTful APIs, JSON, service communication, software testing, and version control.
- Willingness to learn LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or the Claude Agent SDK.
- Strong verbal and written communication and a collaborative, feedback-seeking mindset.
- Preferred exposure to prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, Java/Spring Boot or Python, Kafka, AWS or GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, Spanner or Postgres, and retail or supply-chain domains.
- Open-source AI contributions or personal experimentation with LLM applications are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid position in Seattle, Washington.
- Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Merchandise discount and Employee Assistance Program resources.
- 401(k), PTO accruals, holidays, and additional benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
- May be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
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About Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a U.S. fashion retailer selling apparel, shoes, accessories, beauty, and home goods through department stores, off-price Nordstrom Rack, and e-commerce. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Seattle, it is a public company (NYSE: JWN) serving consumers nationwide, with technology, merchandising, and supply-chain teams supporting its digital and in-store operations.