Software Engineer III

The Staff Software Engineer designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI and software systems that support retail store operations, associate productivity, and customer experience
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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
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This position reports into our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ. Hybrid schedule, in office Tuesday - Thursday.

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• 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!
• 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

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