Agentic AI Engineer — Inventory Systems (Entry)

Nordstrom Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision

Dental

401k and PTO

Life Insurance

Disability

Merchandise Discount

EAP Resources

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineer 1 to grow foundational skills in agentic AI on production inventory systems. You'll implement components, write tests, and learn how production agentic systems are designed and operated inside a large retail enterprise.

You’ll work with teams across engineering, product, and business to apply context engineering and ensure reliable, auditable AI-powered inventory decisions.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of professional software engineering experience or a relevant certification.
• Hands-on exposure to LLMs or foundation models via coursework or work.
• Curiosity about agentic AI and production skills in this space.
• Strong CS fundamentals and RESTful API experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement components of agentic inventory solutions under guidance.
• Learn context engineering and grounding agents with inventory data.
• Build and run evaluation scripts and offline benchmarks for safety and accuracy.
• Participate in on-call rotations and design reviews.
• Add instrumentation and follow security standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Skills

AI Fluency

RESTful APIs

Git

LangGraph

CrewAI

Communication skills

Education

Certification (Bootcamp)

Tools

Jira

Slack

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java / Spring Boot

Kafka

Job description

Nordstrom is seeking an Engineer 1 to grow foundational skills in agentic AI on production inventory systems. You'll implement components, write tests, and learn how production agentic systems are designed and operated inside a large retail enterprise.

You’ll work with teams across engineering, product, and business to apply context engineering and ensure reliable, auditable AI-powered inventory decisions.