[Hiring] Engineer, AI & Automation @Foot Locker

Role Description

Foot Locker is seeking an experienced and innovative Engineer, AI & Automation who has a proven track record of building enterprise-level platform components that support product development across multiple teams and lines of business. The Engineer will develop, test, deploy, and support AI and intelligent automation solutions across the retail enterprise, including:

• AI agents
• RAG solutions
• Automation workflows
• APIs
• Enterprise integrations serving merchandising, inventory, supply chain, store operations, digital commerce, and analytics

The Engineer will collaborate with architects, engineering, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and production-ready AI solutions. AI products delivered by this team are used every day by store, merchandising, supply chain, digital commerce, and corporate teams across Foot Locker’s brands and digital channels.

Scope of the role: builds components and features within established enterprise AI patterns, with design decisions guided by senior engineers and architects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AI, GenAI, RAG, and automation applications
• Build AI agents and workflows using approved enterprise AI frameworks and architecture patterns
• Develop prompts, APIs, integrations, Python services, and automation workflows
• Connect AI applications to structured and unstructured enterprise data, including enterprise knowledge, ontology, and semantic layer sources
• Implement embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, and RAG pipelines
• Integrate solutions with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, Power BI, APIs, and enterprise applications
• Support retail AI use cases across merchandising, inventory, supply chain, stores, digital commerce, and analytics
• Write clean, reusable, testable, and well-documented code
• Develop automated unit, integration, regression, and AI evaluation tests covering groundedness, retrieval quality, task success, latency, and cost per request
• Support CI/CD deployment and environment management across development, test, and production
• Monitor AI applications for quality, performance, reliability, security, and cost
• Troubleshoot defects and production issues in partnership with senior engineers
• Follow enterprise standards for AI governance, security, privacy, PII protection, and Responsible AI
• Participate in POCs and rapidly evaluate emerging AI and automation technologies

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, automation, applied AI, or related development roles
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
• Experience developing REST APIs and data/application integrations
• Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, and vector search
• Familiarity with AI agent/orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, or similar modern data platforms
• Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, testing, logging, and monitoring
• Understanding of data security, privacy, and software engineering best practices
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, and communication skills
• Experience in Retail, Digital Commerce, Supply Chain, or Customer Analytics domains preferred
• Experience working in Agile product delivery environments preferred
• Azure AI Engineer or equivalent certifications preferred

Benefits

• Employee Discount
• Paid Time Off
• Medical | Dental | Vision Coverage
• 401(k) | Roth 401(k)
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Opportunities for Advancement
• Tuition Reimbursement for Qualified Courses
• Strong Company Culture
• Employee Resource Groups