Senior AI Platform Engineer — Enablement & Scale

Nordstrom Inc; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Merchandise Discount

EAP Resources

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Nordstrom Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer on the AI Enablement team to design and deliver AI platform capabilities that enable Generative AI at scale across Nordstrom Technology.

You will lead multi-engineer initiatives, translate complex problems into actionable tasks, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of AI enablement while driving productivity and business outcomes. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and observability, with collaboration across product managers,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Python proficiency: expert programming skills in Python with clean, maintainable code.
• Kubernetes experience: hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Cloud infrastructure: experience deploying to AWS with infrastructure as code.
• AI/ML understanding: knowledge of AI concepts and platforms (e.g., AWS AgentCore) and evaluating solutions.
• Problem-solving: strong analytical and debugging skills.
• System design: ability to design testable, maintainable, efficient, extensible systems.

Responsibilities

• Design AI platform solutions that integrate with developer tools, cloud services, LLM providers, and observability systems.
• Own systems spanning multiple engineers and break complex problems into tasks.
• Make technical trade-offs between short-term needs and long-term objectives.
• Champion best practices and guide design reviews for quality and scalability.
• Lead incident resolution and cross-functional troubleshooting.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

AI/ML concepts

System design

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Nordstrom Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer on the AI Enablement team to design and deliver AI platform capabilities that enable Generative AI at scale across Nordstrom Technology.

You will lead multi-engineer initiatives, translate complex problems into actionable tasks, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of AI enablement while driving productivity and business outcomes. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and observability, with collaboration across product managers,