Principal Engineer: AI-Driven Retail Systems

lululemon; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Employee discount

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Principal Engineer for Retail Systems in Seattle. The role defines technical vision and drives implementation across global store, guest, educator, and omni-channel experiences.

You will serve as a senior authority for complex platforms, shaping architecture, roadmaps, and AI-enabled transformation plans. You will write production code for the most challenging issues while elevating engineering standards, reliability, and deployment practices across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision, system design, and implementation approach for major retail systems initiatives that support global store, guest, educator, and omni-channel experiences.
• Serve as a senior technical authority across complex retail platforms, including POS, mobile commerce, endless aisle, enterprise payments, RFID, inventory systems, retail data, and AI-enabled retail capabilities.
• Write high-quality production code to solve critical technical challenges when hands-on expertise is required, including AI-enabled tooling, automation, and agentic development patterns where they create meaningful leverage.
• Partner with architects, product leaders, engineering teams, business stakeholders, and technology leadership to translate strategy into scalable architecture, executable roadmaps, AI-informed transformation plans, and operationally sound delivery.
• Lead complex cross-team integrations across retail platforms, shared services, enterprise systems, market-specific capabilities, and emerging AI-powered experiences.
• Raise engineering standards across multiple teams, including code quality, reliability, observability, deployment readiness, technical debt management, operational excellence, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development.
• Identify and mitigate systemic technical risks, reliability gaps, integration complexity, platform constraints, AI governance needs, and technical debt that could impact store operations, guest experience, or enterprise scale.

Job description

lululemon is seeking a Principal Engineer for Retail Systems in Seattle. The role defines technical vision and drives implementation across global store, guest, educator, and omni-channel experiences.

You will serve as a senior authority for complex platforms, shaping architecture, roadmaps, and AI-enabled transformation plans. You will write production code for the most challenging issues while elevating engineering standards, reliability, and deployment practices across teams.