Retail AI Solutions Architect

Five Below Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Five Below is seeking a seasoned AI Architecture & Strategy leader to own the enterprise AI architecture across retail domains, including merchandising, supply chain, stores, marketing, and e-commerce. You will translate business problems into scalable AI blueprints and champion open-source tooling and governance.

The role requires hands-on design of end‑to‑end AI systems, strong communication with technical and business stakeholders, and partnership with product and security teams to embed AI

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in software, data, or AI engineering with 5+ years in AI/ML architecture roles.
• Proven experience delivering production AI solutions in retail/e-commerce or consumer-facing industries.
• Deep hands-on expertise with open-source AI/ML ecosystem and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI architecture for retail use cases and reference architectures.
• Lead open-source AI framework selection, governance, and deployment patterns.
• Architect end-to-end AI solutions across data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, inference, and integration.
• Establish AI observability and security standards, with MLOps coordination.
• Define productivity tooling adoption and governance for AI across teams.
• Collaborate with business and product leaders to prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.

Skills

Communication skills

Python

ML frameworks

Retail/consumer experience

Open‑source ecosystem

Architectural design

Cloud platforms

Tools

Hugging Face

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MLflow

Ray

Feast

Evidently

Databricks

Snowflake

vLLM

Ollama

llama.cpp

OpenLLM

Job description

Five Below is seeking a seasoned AI Architecture & Strategy leader to own the enterprise AI architecture across retail domains, including merchandising, supply chain, stores, marketing, and e-commerce. You will translate business problems into scalable AI blueprints and champion open-source tooling and governance.

The role requires hands-on design of end‑to‑end AI systems, strong communication with technical and business stakeholders, and partnership with product and security teams to embed AI