Autopilot Finance AI Architect — Hands-on, Hybrid Seattle

Nordstrom, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO

Life Insurance

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Principal AI Architect who will design and implement the AI-driven financial reporting infrastructure, including agent orchestration and data pipelines, to move toward autopilot finance. This hands-on role requires writing code, prompts, and setting standards.

Hybrid role in downtown Seattle four days a week. You will collaborate with Finance, FP&A, Controllership, and Data teams to ensure auditability, compliance, and scalable AI systems, while

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/data engineering or applied AI/ML experience.
• Hands-on expertise with modern AI architectures — LLM application design, agent orchestration/workflow frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt/context engineering.
• Strong data engineering fundamentals: pipeline design, data quality, and integration with enterprise data platforms (e.g., BigQuery or equivalent cloud data warehouse).
• Direct experience with, or ability to quickly learn, financial reporting concepts and controls (close process, reconciliation, variance analysis).
• A track record of operating as a technical architect and an individual contributor simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the end-to-end AI infrastructure for automated financial reporting — agent orchestration, data pipelines, model integration, and human-in-the-loop review workflows.
• Design for reliability and auditability with traceability and controls.
• Prototype and ship production-grade AI agents/pipelines using LLM APIs, retrieval systems, and workflow orchestration tools.

Skills

AI architecture

Agent orchestration

Data pipelines

LLM integration

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Nordstrom, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking a Principal AI Architect who will design and implement the AI-driven financial reporting infrastructure, including agent orchestration and data pipelines, to move toward autopilot finance. This hands-on role requires writing code, prompts, and setting standards.

Hybrid role in downtown Seattle four days a week. You will collaborate with Finance, FP&A, Controllership, and Data teams to ensure auditability, compliance, and scalable AI systems, while