AI Agentic Solutions Engineer

Nordstrom, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and

Paid Time Away

Life Insurance and Disability

Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking an Engineer 2 to own agentic components within our AI Agentic Solutions team. You will design interactions between modules and implement production-ready agentic workflows in a fast-paced retail environment.

Responsibilities include integrating LLM APIs, building context-aware agents, and participating in design reviews, with on-call duties and telemetry-driven improvements across AWS/GCP cloud-native stacks.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs or foundation model APIs including prompt engineering or retrieval-augmented generation patterns.
• Experience building or contributing to AI agents or agentic workflows with tool-use, orchestration, or integration with downstream systems.
• Growing understanding of assembling context for agents within token, latency, and cost constraints; exposure to evaluation or testing practices for LLM-based systems.
• Solid CS fundamentals—data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design—with production-grade tech stack on AWS and/or GCP.
• Familiarity with modern agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, Claude Agent SDK, or OpenAI Assistants API.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic components with minimal supervision—tool-use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic.
• Contribute to context engineering work to determine what an agent sees, when, and why within token, latency, and cost constraints.
• Apply AI fluency to integrate LLM APIs, embedding models, vector stores, and agentic frameworks into production services, and build safeguards and telemetry.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, using debugging/profiling tools and root‑cause analysis for complex issues.
• Learn to lead work processes and design reviews, reviewing teammates’ work and guiding trade-offs.
• Log events and publish metrics for owned systems; model access control and sensitive data handling practices.
• Align work with Nordstrom's AI Agentic Solutions roadmap, collaborating with business, infra, and security teams.

Skills

LLM APIs

Agent workflows

Context engineering

On-call rotation

CS fundamentals

AWS/GCP

LangGraph/CrewAI

Communication skills

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

Claude Agent SDK

OpenAI Assistants API

Job description

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking an Engineer 2 to own agentic components within our AI Agentic Solutions team. You will design interactions between modules and implement production-ready agentic workflows in a fast-paced retail environment.

Responsibilities include integrating LLM APIs, building context-aware agents, and participating in design reviews, with on-call duties and telemetry-driven improvements across AWS/GCP cloud-native stacks.