Principal AI Agentic Systems Engineer

Gap Inc.; South Carolina; On-site; USD 210,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merchandise discount

Paid Time Off

Volunteer hours

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical/dental/vision/life insurance

Job summary

Gap Inc. seeks a hands-on senior engineering leader to bridge creative design, product creation, and the global supply chain. You will build and ship AI/ML-backed multi-agent workflows that turn structured & unstructured data, mood boards, tech packs, fabric specs, vendor collaboration, etc.

into live, sometimes autonomous, production decisions. As a senior, hands‑on engineering leader, you will direct the technical standards of the agentic systems that allow our business to operate at

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/data/ML engineering with recent production AI experience.
• Experience shipping production AI/ML systems, ideally LLM-based agents or multi-agent orchestration.
• Hands-on coding and code review are part of your daily practice.

Responsibilities

• Own Technical Standards. Set and enforce engineering standards, contracts, and integration patterns for agentic solutions.
• Architect Agent-Ready Data. Define data strategies for ingesting, embedding, and exposing AI-ready data products.
• Co-Own the Agentic Reference Architecture. Design the agent harness, orchestration patterns, and tool contracts while staying model agnostic.
• Lead Complex Product-to-Market Agent Workflows. Build/deploy multi-agent systems across Design, Development, and Sourcing.
• Partner on Guardrails & Governance. Drive FinOps and collaborate with Trust, Security, and Governance teams.
• Elevate the Engineering Bar. Mentor engineers and participate in architecture reviews.

Skills

LLM-based agents

Multi-agent orchestration

Production AI systems

Cloud AI stack (GCP/Vertex)

Orchestration patterns

Hands-on coding

Technical standards leadership

Tools

LangGraph

Vertex AI

GCP

Job description

Gap Inc. seeks a hands-on senior engineering leader to bridge creative design, product creation, and the global supply chain. You will build and ship AI/ML-backed multi-agent workflows that turn structured & unstructured data, mood boards, tech packs, fabric specs, vendor collaboration, etc.

into live, sometimes autonomous, production decisions. As a senior, hands‑on engineering leader, you will direct the technical standards of the agentic systems that allow our business to operate at