Junior AI Software Engineer — Agentic AI

Jobtailor; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordstrom is seeking an junior software engineer focused on AI applications and agentic solutions. You will implement componentry under senior guidance, learn context engineering, and contribute to evaluation scripts, instrumentation, and secure practices.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to align your work with broader retail technology goals and data privacy requirements.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience (internships count).
• Hands-on exposure to LLMs or foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.).
• Genuine curiosity about agentic AI and tool usage to build production skills.
• Solid CS fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and OO design — plus RESTful APIs knowledge.
• Basic understanding of software testing practices and Git version control.
• Willingness to learn modern agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or Claude Agent SDK.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and collaborative mindset.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or vector databases.
• Exposure to AWS or GCP cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD basics.
• Interest or coursework in retail, e-commerce, or supply chain problem spaces.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or personal experimentation with LLM apps.

Responsibilities

• Implement individual components of agentic solutions — tool integrations, prompt templates, retrieval steps — under the direction of senior engineers, writing clean, well-tested code and documenting your work clearly.
• Learn how the team applies context engineering and actively seek knowledge of LLMs and agentic frameworks to apply to your work.
• Help build and run evaluation scripts and offline benchmarks to check agent behavior for safety, accuracy, and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and design reviews, learning to debug issues and surface trade-offs on the components you own.
• Add basic instrumentation — logging, metrics, alerts — following Nordstrom's engineering and security standards, including secure handling of data.
• Collaborate with teammates across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to understand how your work fits into the larger solution.

Skills

AI Fluency

Agentic AI

REST APIs

Data Structures

Git

CI/CD

Cloud Platforms

Prompt Engineering

RAG

Open-source

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Claude Agent SDK

Job description

Nordstrom is seeking an junior software engineer focused on AI applications and agentic solutions. You will implement componentry under senior guidance, learn context engineering, and contribute to evaluation scripts, instrumentation, and secure practices.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to align your work with broader retail technology goals and data privacy requirements.