Sr. Engineer, AI & Automation

Overview Great brands reflect culture. The best ones help shape it. At Foot Locker, we're rooted in sport, powered by style, and driven by the communities that move both. From Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker to Champs Sports, WSS, and atmos, our brands sit at the intersection of sport, style, and self-expression. As part of the DICK'S Sporting Goods family, you're backed by the resources, reach, and career opportunities of a world-class sports company.

That unleashes Foot Locker to keep pushing forward with the agility and edge that define the brand. We're looking for great people who want to influence culture and the generation that is shaping what's next. Whether you're building strategy, shaping innovations, or creating unforgettable customer moments, you'll contribute to decisions and experiences that define our brands' impact in the communities we serve.

Come change the game with us. This Role is 100% REMOTE, US Based At this time, Foot Locker will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization.

Foot Locker is seeking an experienced and innovative Sr. Engineer, AI & Automation to design, develop, and deliver scalable AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation solutions across the retail enterprise. This role will provide hands‑on technical leadership in building AI agents, RAG solutions, automation workflows, APIs, and enterprise integrations using modern cloud and data platforms. The position will partner with architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to product ionize secure, reliable, and governed AI solutions that improve merchandising, inventory, supply chain, store operations, digital commerce, customer experience, and enterprise analytics.

Partner closely with business and technology leaders to architect next‑generation AI solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent automation, and modern cloud‑native platforms. This individual will provide deep technical leadership, establish enterprise AI governance frameworks, and drive innovation by transforming business processes into AI‑enabled products and experiences. 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: owns AI products and services end to end in production, including their evaluation, reliability, and cost profile, and sets implementation patterns for the team.

• Design and develop production‑grade GenAI, Agentic AI, RAG, and automation solutions.
• Build AI agents and multi‑agent workflows integrating enterprise data, APIs, applications, and business processes
• Develop RAG solutions using LLMs, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, ontology and knowledge graph sources, and enterprise knowledge repositories
• Integrate AI solutions with platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, Power BI, APIs, and retail operational systems
• Build AI‑enabled solutions for retail use cases including inventory intelligence, merchandising, supply chain, store operations, product insights, customer analytics, and business reporting
• Develop reusable AI services, APIs, frameworks, connectors, and automation components
• Implement LLMOps and CI/CD processes for automated testing, deployment, monitoring, prompt and model version management, and evaluation against groundedness, retrieval quality, task success, latency, and cost per task
• Implement AI guardrails, security, RBAC, PII protection, Responsible AI, logging, monitoring,…