Senior AI Systems Architect for Retail Scale

Sprouts Farmers Market; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Vacation accrual plan

15% discount for you and a household

Flexible schedules

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) with company match

Company paid life insurance

DailyPay access

Job summary

Sprouts Farmers Market is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of large-scale AI-powered systems across retail platforms. You will lead AI initiatives from concept to production, influence engineering direction, and ensure scalable, reliable systems aligned with business outcomes.

This role emphasizes MLOps, governance, and collaboration with Product to shape technical direction, improve performance, and deliver store intelligence, autonomous

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering with 2+ years in AI/ML.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on with Generative AI, LLMs, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of large-scale AI/ML systems.
• Define reference architectures for AI and platform systems.
• Drive production readiness with observability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Product and Business teams to shape technical direction.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML systems

Generative AI / LLMs

Data pipelines

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Job description

Sprouts Farmers Market is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of large-scale AI-powered systems across retail platforms. You will lead AI initiatives from concept to production, influence engineering direction, and ensure scalable, reliable systems aligned with business outcomes.

This role emphasizes MLOps, governance, and collaboration with Product to shape technical direction, improve performance, and deliver store intelligence, autonomous