Software Engineer III - AI Platforms & Retail Systems

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

• Build reusable components:
• Implement MLOps best practices:

Overview

The Staff Software Engineer designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI and software systems that support retail store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience.

This role operates at the intersection of software engineering, data, and AI, partnering with Product and Business teams to translate requirements into scalable, reliable, and high-impact solutions, working to achieve operational targets with significant impact on departmental results.

This position reports into our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ. Hybrid schedule, in office Tuesday - Thursday.

Overview Of Responsibilities

AI Solution Development

• 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

Model Engineering & MLOps

• Implement MLOps best practices:
  • CI/CD for models
  • Monitoring and retraining
  • Versioning
• Build pipelines for:
  • Training
  • Evaluation
  • Deployment
• Monitor:
  • Model performance
  • Drift
  • Reliability

Data & Platform Integration

• Integrate AI services into enterprise systems and workflows
• Partner with data teams to ensure high-quality data pipelines
• Optimize systems for:
  • Performance
  • Scalability
  • Cost
• Implement:
  • RAG architectures
  • Vector database integrations

Product & Business Partnership

• Partner with Product and Business teams to:
  • Understand requirements,
  • Refine problem statements
  • Deliver effective solutions, explaining and ensuring understanding of facts, policies and practices.
• Ensure solutions align with:
  • Business goals
  • Customer needs
  • Operational constraints

Production Support & Operational Excellence (Build + Run)

• Build systems that are production-ready and supportable, if necessary, conduct detailed analysis, investigation and modify processes to solve problems.
• Participate in:
  • Incident management
  • Root cause analysis
  • System improvements
• Ensure strong:
  • Logging
  • Monitoring
  • Observability

Engineering Excellence

• Follow best practices in:
  • Code quality
  • Testing
  • DevOps
• Contribute to:
  • Design reviews
  • Engineering standards
  • Documentation

Qualifications

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:
  • MLOps tools (MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker)
  • LLMs / GenAI / NLP
  • Real-time inference systems

Core Competencies

• Communication
• Customer Focus
• Driving for Results
• Positive Approach

Benefits

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility Requirements May Apply For The Following Benefits

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free. We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/.

Why Sprouts

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting. Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

Sprouts will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance.

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