Nordstrom
Retail · Department store retailer
Currently tracking 2 active AI roles, down 65% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
Retail · Department store retailer
Nordstrom currently has seven active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 57%, are focused on agents. The company is primarily hiring in the United States. Frequent technology tags associated with these positions include agent orchestration, LLM observability, and tool use, suggesting a focus on developing and managing AI agent systems.
Nordstrom currently has 6 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Engineer: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA), Senior Data Analyst, Inventory Visibility and Controls (Hybrid, Seattle), Senior Data Scientist – AI & ML | MLOps Enablement (Hybrid – Seattle, WA), Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA), Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Nordstrom's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (83%), evaluation (17%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Nordstrom is hiring AI talent in: United States (6 roles).
Job postings at Nordstrom most frequently reference: agent orchestration, llm observability, tool use, rag, evals.
In the past 30 days, Nordstrom has posted 6 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Engineer: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Principal Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of an AI Agentic Platform enabling autonomous reasoning, action, and collaboration across Nordstrom's technology ecosystem. This role focuses on building foundational layers for agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and multi-agent coordination at scale, integrating LLM APIs, vector stores, RAG, and agentic frameworks. | Agent | 8 |
| Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Lead Nordstrom’s enterprise initiative on AI-native developer productivity, defining and building the strategy, tooling, training, and measurement infrastructure to transform how technical organizations build, operate, and ship software. This role involves hands-on research, prototyping, driving adoption, and rigorous impact measurement with SVP/VP-level visibility. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Platform (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Senior Engineer 2 at Nordstrom to build the core AI Agentic Platform, enabling AI agents to reason, use tools, and take action. Responsibilities include designing and building agent orchestration, tool-use pipelines, and memory systems, integrating LLMs and RAG, and ensuring scalability and observability. Requires strong software engineering experience, AI fluency with LLMs and RAG, and platform engineering experience in AI teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Engineer 2: AI Agentic Solutions (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Senior Engineer role focused on designing and building AI agentic solutions end-to-end for Nordstrom. This involves agent engineering, context engineering, evaluations, guardrails, and memory/state management. The role requires hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic frameworks, RAG, and production deployment, with a product-minded approach and strong software engineering skills. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist – AI & ML | MLOps Enablement (Hybrid – Seattle, WA) Senior Data Scientist role focused on MLOps enablement and platform engineering within Nordstrom's Developer Platform organization. The role acts as a bridge between Data Science practice and platform engineering, shaping the ML platform infrastructure and tooling that Data Scientists use. Key responsibilities include validating new platform capabilities, designing the Model Evaluation Framework, building model-type-aware configurations, benchmarking platforms, and contributing to the Vertex AI Agentic Platform. Requires deep expertise in model evaluation, feature stores, ML monitoring, and production model delivery, with a strong preference for GCP/Vertex AI experience. | Eval GateServe | 7 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, Platform & Data (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Senior Technical Program Manager for Nordstrom's Platform and Data organization, focusing on the Insights Delivery team. The role drives AI-first metric definition/standardization and data quality programs to enable trusted decision-making. It involves partnering with data engineering and analytics teams to shape metric definition, governance, and delivery, using AI as a multiplier. The candidate will lead the scaling and maturation of the enterprise data governance operating model, embedding governance into data platforms, analytics solutions, and business processes. | — | 5 |
| Senior Data Analyst, Inventory Visibility and Controls (Hybrid, Seattle) Senior Data Analyst role focused on enhancing enterprise inventory visibility and controls using data, analytics, and AI-powered insights. The role involves translating business questions into actionable insights, developing durable analytics products, and partnering with product and engineering teams to scale real-time visibility, anomaly detection, and human-in-the-loop resolution workflows. Emphasis on automation-first and AI-enabled analytics to improve inventory traceability, prevent loss, and support proactive decision-making. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer - Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering (Hybrid - Seattle) Senior Security Engineer focused on Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering. Responsibilities include writing detection rules, threat hunting, and building automation. The role leverages AI-assisted tooling for intelligence processing and detection development, but the core craft is security engineering, not AI model building. | — | 5 |
| Senior Engineer 2 - Supply Chain Technology Senior Engineer 2 role focused on designing and architecting supply chain technology solutions, including forecasting, fulfillment optimization, and transportation systems. The role involves collaborating with various teams, driving technical decision-making, and ensuring the quality and scalability of solutions. While AI/ML tools are mentioned as a way to accelerate development and drive operational intelligence, the core focus is on building and maintaining supply chain systems. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager 2 - Carrier Management System (Seattle, WA) - HYBRID Product Manager for Nordstrom's Carrier Management System, focusing on enhancing carrier operations, optimizing transportation efficiency, and improving delivery experience. The role involves strategic planning, roadmap execution, product development, and cross-functional collaboration. A key requirement is proficiency with AI tools for rapid prototyping and validation. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager 2 - Experimentation, Observability & Platform Infrastructure (Hybrid - Seattle) Product Manager to own experimentation, observability, and platform infrastructure capabilities for Nordstrom's digital experience. This role involves defining roadmaps, making prioritization tradeoffs, and evolving the platform. It sits at the intersection of engineering infrastructure and product delivery, impacting the velocity and quality of work for multiple teams. The role will also explore how AI can improve experimentation and monitoring workflows. | — | 5 |
| IT Operations Manager - (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) IT Operations Manager at Nordstrom responsible for leading a team, enhancing IT infrastructure using Microsoft Intune and Azure, overseeing Helpdesk, driving innovation with AI technologies to improve operations and productivity, serving as a strategic partner, managing resources and budgets, and leveraging the ServiceNow platform. Requires significant experience in IT operations, AI implementation for operational enhancement, team leadership, and specific platform knowledge. | — | 5 |
| Senior Principal Engineer - Cybersecurity (Hybrid - Seattle) Senior Principal Engineer - Cybersecurity role at Nordstrom, focusing on defining and implementing enterprise-wide platform security strategy, including for emerging technologies like genAI. The role involves architecting security solutions, establishing governance frameworks, and mentoring technical leaders. While not directly building AI models, the role is critical for securing AI deployments and requires understanding of AI/ML platforms and responsible AI practices within a large enterprise context. | — | 5 |
| Senior Compliance Analyst – Continuous Compliance Framework (Hybrid - Seattle) Senior Compliance Analyst to lead the transformation and maturation of a Continuous Compliance Framework (CCF), focusing on AI-assisted testing and automation within a GRC tool. This role involves tailoring controls, configuring the GRC module, collaborating across business and technology teams, and integrating with risk and governance programs. The analyst will partner with Security Engineers to design AI-driven testing features and support audits like PCI. | — | 2 |
| Lead Data Engineer, Customer Identity Analytics (Hybrid - Seattle, WA) Lead Data Engineer for Nordstrom's Customer Identity team, focusing on building and maintaining the data infrastructure for customer analytics. The role involves owning the technical direction, guiding a team, and improving customer recognition accuracy through data quality analysis, match accuracy improvements, and platform modernization. Key responsibilities include designing quality KPIs, migrating infrastructure to a warehouse-native architecture (BigQuery + dbt), and mentoring engineers. | — | 2 |
| Sr Manager Program Management - Insights & Analytics (Hybrid- Seattle, WA) This role leads the delivery of enterprise programs focused on finance automation, analytics modernization, and AI enablement within Nordstrom. It involves program leadership, stakeholder management, and partnering with Finance, Technology, and Data & Analytics teams to drive programs from strategy to execution. The role also includes leading a small team of program managers and data analysts. | — | 1 |
| Operations Manager - Outbound (1st Shift) - West Coast Omni Center Operations Manager for Nordstrom's West Coast Omni Center, focusing on leading a team of 20 employees, driving safety, quality, and performance, managing budgets, and implementing continuous improvement methodologies in a warehouse environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Systems Analyst - Accounting Operations (Remote) This role is for a Senior Systems Analyst focused on accounting operations within Nordstrom, specifically supporting Oracle Cloud ERP. The primary responsibilities include performing systems analysis, resolving operational issues, analyzing integrations, ensuring financial integrity, and embedding financial controls. The role requires extensive experience in finance systems and a strong understanding of accounting operations and close processes. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager - Digital Insights (Hybrid - Seattle) Engineering Manager for Digital Insights & Delivery at Nordstrom, leading a team of senior data engineers and analysts to build and maintain data pipelines, models, and reporting for digital business analytics. Focuses on capturing, processing, and transforming web and app activity into actionable insights for decision-making, demand forecasting, and KPI reporting. Requires strong data engineering skills, leadership experience, and experience with cloud data stacks and event streaming. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager 2 - RFID Enterprise Capabilities - HYBRID Program Manager II to support RFID Enterprise Capabilities within Inventory Visibility & Controls. This role will contribute to the execution and scaling of RFID as an enterprise inventory integrity platform, supporting its expansion across supply chain, stores, fulfillment, asset protection, and customer-facing workflows. The role involves translating RFID enterprise strategy into executable programs, managing dependencies, and aligning cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include supporting vendor tagging standards, driving supplier compliance, and expanding RFID scope. The role balances speed, risk, and long-term enterprise value, ensuring standards, governance, adoption, and change management are in place for new capabilities to deliver improvements in accuracy, shrink, productivity, and customer confidence. It requires experience in program management, knowledge of RFID technology and retail operations, and the ability to lead through influence in a dynamic environment. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager 1 – Merchandising (Hybrid - Seattle) Product Manager 1 for Nordstrom's Merchandising domain, focusing on technology solutions for product planning, selection, and procurement. The role involves partnering with business and engineering teams to develop and manage innovative merchandising solutions, contributing to customer experience evolution through data-driven insights and delivering key features. Responsibilities include contributing to product roadmaps, supporting backlog prioritization, participating in product discovery, and measuring/communicating feature results. | — | 0 |
| Production Controller - Supply Chain This role manages the volume and workflow of a Distribution Center (DC) to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and productivity efficiency requirements. The Production Controller will oversee complex technical operations, prioritize critical tasks, and provide guidance to operational leaders. Responsibilities include managing DC processing and shipment workflows using automated tools, maintaining communication with DC Operations leaders, executing and developing production and staffing plans, trialing new tools, collaborating with enterprise planning teams, and driving risk management strategies. The ideal candidate has a degree in Engineering, Operations, or Logistics, at least 5 years of experience in a distribution/fulfillment or industrial environment, and expertise in SQL and VBA. | — | 0 |
| Bar Manager - NYC Flagship Bar Manager at Nordstrom's NYC Flagship store, responsible for leading and training staff, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing unit operations. Requires management experience in the food and beverage industry and a flexible schedule. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Host - Bazille - International Plaza This role is for a Restaurant Host at Nordstrom's Bazille restaurant. Responsibilities include greeting and seating customers, sharing menu knowledge, assisting with training, and supporting other restaurant operations. Requires strong communication skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and a flexible schedule. Food service experience is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Host - Café Bistro - Barton Creek Square Mall This role is for a Restaurant Host at Nordstrom, focusing on customer service, greeting and seating customers, and supporting restaurant operations. It requires communication skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and a flexible schedule. Food service experience is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Executive Assistant 1 - Human Resources - Seattle, WA (Hybrid) Executive Assistant 1 role supporting VPs of HR for Merchandising and Store Operations, and Stores. Responsibilities include coordinating activities, facilitating processes, reviewing operating practices, setting up administrative procedures, assisting with budgets, and driving special projects. Requires 5+ years of administrative support experience, proficiency in MS Office (intermediate to advanced PowerPoint desired), strong time management, ability to handle confidential information, organizational and problem-solving skills, relationship-building abilities, and clear communication skills. A Bachelor's degree in business administration is preferred. This is a hybrid role in Seattle, WA. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Host - Marketplace Café - Tysons Corner Center Restaurant Host role at Nordstrom, focusing on customer service, greeting and seating customers, sharing menu knowledge, and assisting with training and other restaurant support tasks. Requires communication skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, flexible schedule, and preferred food service experience. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Host - Broadway Bar - NYC Flagship Restaurant Host position at Nordstrom's Broadway Bar in NYC Flagship, focusing on customer service, greeting and seating customers, sharing menu knowledge, and assisting with training and other restaurant support as needed. Requires strong communication skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, flexible scheduling, and preferred food service experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Enterprise Strategy (Hybrid, Seattle) Senior Manager, Enterprise Strategy & Growth role at Nordstrom, focusing on high-impact projects, team leadership, and driving long-term growth ambition through enterprise strategy, business development, market intelligence, and enterprise activation. | — | 0 |
| Operations Manager - 1st Shift - Dubuque Distribution Center Operations Manager for a distribution center, focusing on team leadership, performance management, process improvement, and meeting financial and KPI targets. Requires experience in warehouse management and data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager 2, Compliance (Seattle, Washington) Program Manager for food and beverage compliance infrastructure, focusing on licensing, permitting, and process optimization within Nordstrom's Legal Department. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing systems and governance frameworks, with an emphasis on AI adoption and data-driven recommendations. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician ll - Menlo Park Maintenance Technician II role at Nordstrom focused on ensuring a safe and well-maintained store environment by leading a team in performing preventive and on-demand maintenance on various building systems including HVAC, vertical transportation, and electrical systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, delegating work orders, vendor relations, and administrative tasks. The role also involves mentoring junior technicians and ensuring compliance with safety procedures and regulations. | — | 0 |
| Strategy Manager, Enterprise Strategy (Hybrid,Seatte) Strategy Manager role focused on enterprise strategy, growth, business development, and market intelligence to drive Nordstrom's long-term growth ambition. Responsibilities include leading high-impact projects, identifying growth vectors, translating strategy into roadmaps, and supporting executive leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Strategy Associate, Enterprise Strategy (Hybrid, Seattle) This role focuses on enterprise strategy within a retail company, involving project management, market research, and developing strategic recommendations. It requires strong quantitative and analytical skills, experience in management consulting or retail strategy, and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. The role is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Operations Manager - Processing (2nd Shift) - Dubuque Distribution Center Operations Manager for a Nordstrom distribution center, responsible for leading a team of hourly employees, driving safety, quality, and performance, managing budgets, and owning process improvement efforts. Requires 5+ years of warehouse management experience and knowledge of KPIs and warehouse management software. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Technician 2 - Electrical & HVAC - Scottsdale Promenade Rack Facilities Technician role focused on maintaining store environments, including HVAC, electrical, and mechanical systems. Responsibilities include preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, leading a team, and administrative tasks. Requires experience in facilities maintenance, HVAC, electrical, and mechanical repairs. | — | 0 |
| Full Service Server - Bazille - Domain Northside Full Service Server at Nordstrom's Bazille restaurant in Domain Northside, Austin, TX. Responsibilities include providing outstanding customer service, being knowledgeable about the menu, suggesting additional items, and supporting other restaurant areas like answering phones and processing financial transactions. Requires 1+ year of food service/hospitality experience, clear communication skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and a food handler's card where required. Pay is $7.25 - $7.25 Hourly. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician 1 - Downtown Seattle This role performs general preventive maintenance of buildings, industrial systems, equipment, and grounds, assisting in monitoring building system operations and performance. It requires basic working knowledge in trade skills like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, roofing, heating, and cooling. | — | 0 |
| Full Service Server - Bazille - Garden State Plaza Full Service Server at Nordstrom's Bazille restaurant, focusing on customer service, menu knowledge, and supporting restaurant operations. Requires 1+ year of food service/hospitality experience and a flexible schedule. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Host - Bazille - Houston Galleria Restaurant Host position at Nordstrom's Bazille restaurant in Houston, TX. Responsibilities include greeting and seating customers, sharing menu knowledge, assisting with training, and supporting other restaurant areas. Requires clear communication, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, flexible scheduling, and a food handler's card. Preferred experience is 1+ year in food service/hospitality. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Technician 2 - Electrical & HVAC - Broadway Plaza Facilities Technician role focused on maintaining store environments, including HVAC, electrical, and mechanical systems. Responsibilities include preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, responding to requests, and leading a team of technicians. Requires experience in facilities maintenance, HVAC, electrical, and mechanical repairs, with a focus on safety procedures and CMMS usage. | — | 0 |
| Front of House Senior - Marketplace Café - Woodfield Shopping Center Front of House Senior role at a restaurant, focusing on customer service, order processing, and maintaining restaurant areas. Requires food service experience and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician 1 - Barton Creek Square Mall This role performs general preventive maintenance of buildings, industrial systems, equipment, and grounds, including basic repairs in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, roofing, heating, and cooling. It involves monitoring system operations, performing inspections, and responding to service requests to ensure a safe and well-maintained store environment. | — | 0 |
| Sr Engineering Manager – Network Infrastructure (Hybrid - Seattle) Seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Network Engineering team within the SNAAP platform. This role is responsible for the design, operation, and evolution of the enterprise network platform, including SD-WAN, multi-cloud connectivity, wireless infrastructure, and DNS/IPAM. The manager will provide technical direction and people leadership, ensuring high availability, resilience, and security. Responsibilities include incident response, architectural design review, cross-functional collaboration, and driving adoption of network automation and infrastructure-as-code practices. Requires a strong background in network engineering before moving into management. | — | 0 |
| Maintenance Technician 3 - NYC Flagship This role is for a Maintenance Technician 3 at Nordstrom, responsible for ensuring store equipment and building systems are operational and maintained. The technician will lead a team, perform advanced troubleshooting, respond to break-fix requests, and mentor junior technicians. Key responsibilities include maintaining HVAC, vertical transportation, and other building systems, promoting safety, and assisting with administrative tasks and vendor relations. The role requires 5+ years of hands-on facilities experience with an emphasis on mechanical, electrical, and plumbing skills, as well as experience with predictive and preventative maintenance. | — | 0 |
| Operations Manager - 2nd Shift (Fri-Tue) - West Coast Omni Center Operations Manager role at Nordstrom focused on leading warehouse teams, driving performance, managing budgets, and implementing process improvements in a retail operations environment. This is a management role with no direct AI/ML responsibilities. | — | 0 |
| Full Service Server - Bazille - Stonebriar Centre Full Service Server at Nordstrom's Bazille restaurant, responsible for providing outstanding customer service, knowledge of the menu, suggesting additional items, and supporting other restaurant areas like answering phones and processing financial transactions. Requires 1+ year of food service/hospitality experience, clear communication skills, ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and a food handler's card where applicable. Pay is $7.25-$7.25 hourly. | — | 0 |
| Full Service Server - Nordstrom Grill - The Mall at Green Hills Full Service Server role at Nordstrom Grill focusing on customer service, menu knowledge, and suggestive selling. Responsibilities include serving customers, suggesting additional items, and supporting other restaurant areas. Requires 1+ year of food service/hospitality experience, clear communication, ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, and a food handler's card where required. Pay is hourly. | — | 0 |
| Assistant Restaurant Manager - Bazille - International Plaza Assistant Restaurant Manager role at Nordstrom, focusing on leading and training restaurant staff, ensuring customer satisfaction, and managing unit operations. Requires experience in full-service restaurant management and basic accounting skills. | — | 0 |
| Restaurant Expeditor - Bazille - La Jolla University Town Center Restaurant expeditor responsible for ensuring correct food and beverage delivery, acting as a liaison between front and back of house, and providing customer service. Requires basic math and communication skills, with potential food handler's card requirement. | — | 0 |