Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Nordstrom Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision/Dental

Life Insurance

Merchandise Discount

EAP Resources

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. is hiring an Engineer 2 for the AI Agentic Solutions team, focusing on building agentic components, integrating LLM APIs, and advancing context engineering within production services.

The role requires design ownership, collaboration with senior engineers, and a strong foundation in CS fundamentals. You will contribute to tool-use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic, while learning to log events, publish metrics, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs or foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google).
• Experience building or contributing to AI agents or agentic workflows.
• Understanding of context assembly for agents within token, latency, and cost constraints.
• CS fundamentals and production-grade tech stack with cloud-native development on AWS and/or GCP.
• Familiarity with LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, Claude Agent SDK, or OpenAI Assistants API.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic components with tool-use integrations and orchestration logic.
• Contribute to context engineering work and determine what an agent sees within constraints.
• Integrate LLM APIs, embeddings, vector stores, and agent frameworks into production services.
• Participate in on-call rotations and root-cause analysis.
• Lead work processes and design reviews and discuss trade-offs with teammates.

Skills

AI fluency

LLM APIs

RAG patterns

Agentic workflows

CS fundamentals

Cloud-native AWS/GCP

LangGraph/CrewAI

Tools

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Semantic Kernel

Claude SDK

AWS

GCP

Job description

About the Team and the Role

Nordstrom is investing in AI as a core driver of retail innovation, and the AI Agentic Solutions team is the pillar responsible for taking that investment from idea to impact.

We define the “art of the possible” with agents — partnering with business and technology teams to identify where agentic AI can meaningfully change how Nordstrom operates, then designing and building those solutions end‑to‑end across commerce, personalization, inventory, and customer service.

Our team sits at the intersection of four disciplines: agent engineering, context engineering, evaluations and guardrails, and memory and state management for agentic solutions.

As an Engineer 2, you are a solid individual contributor with growing ownership over agentic components and features. You’re a subject matter expert within your specific piece of the solution, capable of designing the interaction between multiple modules, and comfortable operating with minimal supervision. You'll partner closely with senior engineers to build production agentic workflows and start developing your own point of view on context engineering, evaluations, and agent design.

A Day in the Life

Design and build agentic components with minimal supervision — tool‑use integrations, retrieval steps, and orchestration logic — considering how they interact with other modules in the system, writing clear, concise, well‑tested code along the way.

Contribute to context engineering work: helping 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 the evaluations and guardrails — offline benchmarks and online telemetry — that demonstrate those components are safe, reliable, and accurate.

Participate in on‑call rotations, using debugging and profiling tools to resolve issues across the team, and contribute to root‑cause analysis on difficult problems.

Learn to lead work processes and design reviews — including reviewing the work of other engineers — and help teammates think through trade‑offs on the pieces you know best.

Understand how to log events and publish metrics for the systems you own, and model good practices for access control and sensitive data handling.

Understand business metrics for the team and how your work connects to the wider AI Agentic Solutions roadmap, partnering with business, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver enhancements and bug fixes for production systems.

Must Have

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• AI Fluency — Required: Hands‑on experience working with LLMs or foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.), including some exposure to prompt engineering or retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
• Some experience building or contributing to AI agents or agentic workflows — tool‑use, orchestration, or integration with downstream systems — whether in production, side projects, or coursework.
• Growing understanding of how to assemble and structure context for agents within token, latency, and cost constraints, and exposure to evaluation or testing practices for LLM‑based systems, including offline benchmarks or basic production monitoring.
• Solid CS fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design — plus at least one production‑grade tech stack and working knowledge of cloud‑native development on AWS and/or GCP.
• Familiarity with modern agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, the Claude Agent SDK, or OpenAI Assistants API.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; comfortable explaining technical work to teammates and cross‑functional partners.

Nice to Have

• Experience with RESTful services, event‑driven architectures, and backend databases (SQL, NoSQL, or cloud‑native datastores).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD practices.
• Interest in building observability into systems — real‑time alerting, dashboards, and metrics.
• Background or interest in retail, e‑commerce, or supply chain problem spaces.
• Exposure to big data technologies (Spark, BigQuery, Redshift) or integrating ML models into production services.
• Contributions to open‑source AI projects or active engagement with the broader AI/ML engineering community.

Pay Range Details

$121,500.00 - $188,500.00 Annual

Benefits

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away Life Insurance and Disability Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
• This position may be eligible for performance‑based incentives/bonuses.
• Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more.
• Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment.

A few more important points

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

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About Us

We’re a fast‑moving fashion company that started as a shoe store in 1901. This heritage of service is the foundation we’re building on as we provide convenience and true connection for our customers. We empower our people to be innovative, creative and focused on providing the best service to our customers. Through it all, we remain committed to leaving the world better than we found it. Whether you’re a genius engineer, a phenomenal salesperson or a supply chain pro, we invite you to bring your unique talents and join our team. We reward great work, promote from within and celebrate diversity.

CUSTOMER OBSESSED

We strive to know our customers better than anyone else. We listen, anticipate, build trust and move with speed to deliver on their needs.

OWNERS AT HEART

We treat every interaction as an opportunity to make an impact and deliver excellence.

CURIOUS AND EVER CHANGING

We approach problems with curiosity and create solutions. We unlock potential to be bold, think big and inspire innovation.

HERE TO WIN

We’re committed to delivering results, both today and tomorrow. We win as a team by supporting and challenging one another to be better every day.

WE EXTEND OURSELVES

We treat each other with respect and kindness. We do the small things that make a big difference. We create a welcoming environment, helping people feel connected, valued and part of one community.

Come on! Join us!

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