Principal Engineer: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)
Core
Design, architecture, and development of a foundational AI Agentic Platform enabling autonomous AI agents to reason, act, and collaborate across Nordstrom's technology ecosystem to enhance customer experiences and streamline operations.
Role type
Principal Engineer (Level 19), advisory individual contributor
Builds
Foundational AI Agentic Platform for agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and multi-agent coordination
Domain
Retail / AI Engineering / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale distributed platform design, LLMs and foundation model APIs, RAG architectures, Python or Java, cloud-native development (AWS/GCP), microservices and event-driven architectures, CI/CD and containerization, mentoring engineering talent
Preferred skills
AI Agentic systems frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI), multi-agent orchestration patterns, agent evaluation and safety guardrails, retail/e-commerce domain knowledge, open-source AI contributions
Technologies
LangGraph, AutoGen, OpenAI Assistants API, Semantic Kernel, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, Spark, BigQuery, Redshift
Responsibilities
Architect and evolve the AI Agentic Platform; Partner with AI/ML and product teams to translate business goals into platform capabilities; Lead cross-team design reviews and establish platform engineering standards; Apply deep AI fluency to evaluate and integrate LLM APIs and agentic frameworks; Mentor and coach engineers across teams; Drive decisions on platform observability, evaluation, and guardrails; Contribute to Nordstrom-wide engineering standards and open-source initiatives
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
