9 days ago
Base Salary
$88k - $146k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build AI-driven financial reporting infrastructure, including agent orchestration, data pipelines, model integration, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Prototype and ship production-grade AI agents and pipelines rather than only creating designs.
- Design systems for reliability, auditability, traceability, reproducibility, and financial controls.
- Partner with Finance, FP&A, Controllership, Accounting, Data Platform, Data Governance, and Security teams.
- Define which reporting activities can be automated and where human review and sign-off must remain.
- Set applied-AI architecture standards, evaluate AI/ML tools and platforms, and mentor engineers.
- Build guardrails against model error, hallucination, and drift, and partner with Risk, Internal Audit, and Compliance.
- Support transparent documentation, trust-building, and phased rollout of AI-assisted reporting.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering, data engineering, or applied AI/ML experience.
- Production experience building and deploying AI systems, beyond research or prototyping.
- Hands-on expertise in LLM application design, agent orchestration and workflow frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt/context engineering.
- Strong data engineering fundamentals, including pipeline design, data quality, and enterprise data-platform integration such as BigQuery.
- Experience with or ability to quickly learn financial reporting concepts and controls, including close processes, reconciliation, variance analysis, and GAAP-adjacent requirements.
- Experience operating as both a technical architect and individual contributor.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills for translating between technical AI and Finance requirements.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, disability coverage, merchandise discount, and EAP resources.
- 401(k), PTO accruals, holidays, and other benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
- May be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
- Hybrid schedule requiring four days per week in the downtown Seattle, Washington office.
Tech Stack
Google BigQuery
Categories
AI ApplicationsData Engineering
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.