Senior Engineer, Applied AI & Build Standards

Best Buy; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 106,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Retirement resources

Well-being programs

Job summary

Best Buy seeks a Senior Engineer for the Applied AI & Build Standards team to shape safe AI agent integration with strong identity controls. You will help architect identity lifecycles, governance, and access across internal apps while mentoring peers and leading design-to-deployment efforts.

The role supports remote work nationwide with hybrid options at Richfield, MN, and offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Eng, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years as Software Engineer or Developer.
• 2+ years in enterprise identity and access management (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• 1+ year with enterprise identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or PingFederate.
• 1+ year of Python, C#, or Go development and AI agent identities.

Responsibilities

• Automate the agent identity lifecycle in Microsoft Entra ID with passwordless accounts and approvals.
• Implement the identity contract: token minting, on-behalf-of exchange, least-privilege scopes.
• Bridge agent identities into SAML and OIDC federation for internal apps.
• Build the team/agent workspace with governed agent presence, devboxes and cloud PCs.
• Carry user and agent identity end-to-end with audit logs.
• Lead delivery from design through deployment, contribute to architecture decisions and mentor others.
• Use Agentic AI as core development tool.

Skills

Python

C#

Go

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Okta

PingFederate

SAML

OIDC

Job description

Senior Engineer, Applied AI & Build Standards

Full time

Regular

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer on Best Buy’s Applied AI & Build Standards team, you will help AI agents work safely alongside our employees as trusted, accountable participants. You’ll build two connected areas: agent identity (how an agent acts on a person’s behalf with only the access it needs, leaving a clear record) and the team/agent workspace (the governed spaces where people and agents work together). Our team, known internally as AI Rails, builds the shared platform and sets the build standards that let thousands of Best Buy engineers and technologists use AI agents with the right access, security and cost controls.

This role is remote-eligible: you can work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location anywhere in the U.S., or hybrid at our corporate campus in Richfield, Minnesota. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.

This role is eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What you’ll do

• Automate the agent identity lifecycle in Microsoft Entra ID, from passwordless agent accounts to approvals, credential rotation, revocation and decommissioning
• Implement the identity contract our AI gateway enforces: token minting, on-behalf-of exchange and least-privilege scopes
• Bridge agent identities into the SAML and OIDC federation most internal apps use, mapping on-premises groups to cloud scopes
• Build the team/agent workspace: governed agent presence in collaboration tools, plus devboxes and cloud PCs, with test accounts kept apart from production
• Carry user and agent identity end to end, from collaboration tools into immutable audit logs
• Lead delivery from design through deployment, contribute to architecture decisions and make others better through code reviews and mentoring
• Use Agentic AI as core development/coding tool
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• 3 or more years of related work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
• 2 or more years of engineering enterprise identity and access management, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML
• 1 or more years of engineering experience with an enterprise identity provider such as Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or PingFederate
• 1 or more years of experience with development or automation in Python, C#, Go or a similar language
• Hands-on experience, at work or on your own, giving AI agents their own identities or delegated access to real systems
• Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents in how you design, build and review software

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Delegated authorization: OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693) or on-behalf-of flows, with per-target, least-privilege tokens
• Microsoft Entra ID in a hybrid Active Directory environment, including workload and agent identities
• Managed cloud desktops or developer environments, such as Windows 365 Cloud PCs and Microsoft Intune

What’s in it for you

• Competitive pay
• Great employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include: Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline

Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

106,200.00

190,300.00

900010 Corporate 1 MN

55423-8500

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being, as outlined in the Benefits Guide. Eligibility may vary.