Remote Senior AI & Automation Engineer

Foot Locker; Town of Montana (WI); Remote; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount

Paid Time Off

Medical | Dental | Vision Coverage

401(k) | Roth 401(k)

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Opportunities for Advancement

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Foot Locker seeks an experienced Sr. Engineer, AI & Automation to design, develop, and deliver scalable AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation solutions across the retail enterprise.

The role provides hands-on technical leadership to build AI agents, RAG solutions, and automation workflows while partnering with architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to productionize secure and governed AI solutions across merchandising, inventory, supply chain, and digital

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of experience delivering AI solutions in production.
• Strong experience with Python, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, and software engineering practices.
• Hands-on knowledge of LLMs, GenAI, RAG, Agentic AI, embeddings, vector databases/search, and prompt engineering.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI/OpenAI APIs or comparable enterprise LLM platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or Databricks and modern cloud data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-grade GenAI, Agentic AI, RAG, and automation solutions.
• Build AI agents and multi-agent workflows integrating enterprise data, APIs, applications, and business processes
• Develop RAG solutions using LLMs, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, ontology and knowledge graph sources
• Integrate AI solutions with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, Power BI, APIs, and retail operational systems
• Build AI-enabled solutions for retail use cases including inventory intelligence, merchandising, supply chain, store operations, product insights, customer analytics, and business reporting
• Develop reusable AI services, APIs, frameworks, connectors, and automation components
• Implement LLMOps and CI/CD processes for automated testing, deployment, monitoring, prompt and model version management, and evaluation against groundedness, retrieval quality, task success, latency, and cost per task
• Implement AI guardrails, security, RBAC, PII protection, Responsible AI, logging, monitoring, and observability
• Optimize AI solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, token consumption, and cost
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and continuously improve AI platform capabilities
• Conduct technical reviews and mentor engineers on AI engineering and software development best practices
• Collaborate with architects to convert enterprise AI architecture into production implementations

Skills

Python

REST APIs

LLMs

GenAI

RAG

Agentic AI

Embeddings

Vector databases

CI/CD

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

Power BI

APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Foot Locker seeks an experienced Sr. Engineer, AI & Automation to design, develop, and deliver scalable AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation solutions across the retail enterprise.

The role provides hands-on technical leadership to build AI agents, RAG solutions, and automation workflows while partnering with architects, data engineers, and business stakeholders to productionize secure and governed AI solutions across merchandising, inventory, supply chain, and digital