Full Stack AI Engineer- Python + Pyspark

Work Model/

Location:

Onsite, Framingham, MA

About Staples

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer who values the diversity of our people, products, and services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

Team Summary

Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, and results-oriented group of problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, embrace advancements in technology, and seek to adapt these technologies to drive Staples forward. Anticipating the needs of our customers and business partners, we deliver reliable, customer-focused technology services that make a difference.

Role Summary

The Software Engineer III - SEO AI blends advanced software engineering expertise with modern optimization strategies for traditional search engines, conversational AI/answer engines, and generative search platforms. This role designs and builds scalable services, APIs, and data structures that improve discoverability, relevance, authority signals, and performance across evolving search and AI ecosystems. The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver with strong engineering fundamentals who can translate optimization goals into robust technical solutions, effectively partner with engineering, product, and content teams, and proactively identify and address roadblocks before they occur.

This position is typically assigned to important and/or complex initiatives, requires independent judgment in day-to-day execution, and is relied upon to mentor junior engineers while operating with regular supervisory review at defined milestones.

What you'll be doing:

* Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, high-performance applications and services that power digital experiences and search-facing capabilities.

* Build and optimize backend systems, APIs, and microservices using modern programming languages and frameworks; ensure reliability, security, maintainability, and observability.

* Implement and enforce engineering best practices including automated testing, code reviews, secure coding, and performance profiling.

* Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices to support frequent, safe releases, ensuring SEO-critical requirements are validated automatically.

* Partner with product managers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to refine requirements, estimate efforts, and deliver high-impact features on schedule.

* Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.

* Implement technical SEO best practices (schema markup, metadata strategies, canonicalization, internal linking, crawl/index controls, and web performance optimization).

* Establish automated checks and dashboards to monitor crawlability, index coverage, structured data validity, and search performance trends.

* Collaborate with content, marketing, and analytics partners to ensure code-level SEO enhancements support measurable business goals.

* Structure and optimize data for AI-driven answer engines and generative search platforms, implementing semantic markup and entity models to improve retrieval precision and answer coverage.

* Integrate AI/ML tools and implement feedback loops to continuously improve generative optimization performance.

* Mentor and train junior engineers, provide technical guidance, and lead project segments as needed.

What you bring to the table:

* Creative problem solving with strong analytical thinking; adept at debugging complex issues and proposing durable solutions.

* Proactive ownership-mindset that identifies needs, communicates early, and drives progress without waiting for direction.

* Strong collaboration skills, able to influence across teams and align stakeholders with different priorities.

* High standards for quality-values testing, observability, performance, and clean, maintainable design.

What's needed
- Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in computer…