Base Salary
$122k - $189k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build agentic components, including tool-use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic.
- Contribute to context engineering within token, latency, and cost constraints.
- Integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, vector stores, and agentic frameworks into production services.
- Build evaluations, guardrails, offline benchmarks, online telemetry, logging, metrics, and access-control practices for agentic systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations, debugging, profiling, root-cause analysis, and production bug fixes.
- Lead work processes and design reviews, review other engineers’ work, and explain technical trade-offs.
- Partner with business, infrastructure, and security teams on enhancements aligned with the AI Agentic Solutions roadmap.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with LLM or foundation-model APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, including prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation exposure.
- Experience building or contributing to AI agents or agentic workflows involving tool use, orchestration, or downstream-system integration, including through production work, side projects, or coursework.
- Understanding of agent context assembly and exposure to evaluation or testing practices for LLM-based systems.
- Strong data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design fundamentals.
- Experience with at least one production-grade technology stack and working knowledge of cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP.
- Familiarity with LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, the Claude Agent SDK, or OpenAI Assistants API.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Preferred experience with backend databases, containerization, observability, retail or e-commerce, big-data technologies, production ML integration, or open-source AI projects.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, disability insurance, merchandise discount, and EAP resources.
- 401(k), PTO accruals, holidays, and additional benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
- The position is hybrid in Seattle, Washington.
- The role may be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
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About Nordstrom
At Nordstrom, we empower our employees to set their sights high and blaze their own trails. This is a place where your success and growth are truly a result of your own efforts and achievements. Our teams are made up of motivated people who work hard to become leaders within the company, at all levels of the organization. These well-traveled paths show how hard work, loyalty, a competitive spirit and your unwavering commitment to the customer can take you and your career to new places. In addition to being a great place to have a career, we’re also committed to respecting the environment and supporting our communities. To learn more, check out NordstromCares.com. Interested in joining the Nordstrom team? See some of our current opportunities under our Careers tab or visit careers.nordstrom.com to apply today.