Senior AI Platform Engineer for Retail Operations

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Sick time plan

Vacation accrual

15% discount for you and one family

401(K) Retirement savings plan

Company paid life insurance

DailyPay

Job summary

Sprouts Farmers Market seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and software systems supporting store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience.

The role blends software engineering, data, and AI, collaborating with Product and Business teams to translate requirements into scalable and reliable solutions with high impact. Reports to Store Support Office in Phoenix, hybrid schedule Tue–Thu in office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or 2 years in AI/ML.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), APIs and distributed systems, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.
• Translate business problems into scalable technical implementations.
• Build reusable components: APIs, AI services, modular frameworks.
• Develop POCs and prototypes to validate new approaches.
• Implement MLOps practices: CI/CD for models, monitoring, retraining, versioning.
• Monitor model performance, drift, and reliability.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

Cloud platforms

APIs

Data pipelines

LLMs / GenAI / NLP

Real-time inference

Tools

MLflow

Kubeflow

SageMaker

Job description

Sprouts Farmers Market seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and software systems supporting store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience.

The role blends software engineering, data, and AI, collaborating with Product and Business teams to translate requirements into scalable and reliable solutions with high impact. Reports to Store Support Office in Phoenix, hybrid schedule Tue–Thu in office.