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Just ask any of our over 35,000 crew members who work at Five Below and they’ll tell you there’s no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every crew member believes in.\nIt’s all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!\nKey Responsibilities\n1. AI Architecture & Strategy\nDefine and own the enterprise AI architecture for retail use cases, aligning with business priorities and technology strategy.\nDevelop reference architectures, patterns, and standards for AI/ML and Generative AI solutions, with an emphasis on open-source-first design principles.\nTranslate retail business problems - across merchandising, supply chain, stores, marketing, and e-commerce - into scalable AI solution blueprints.\nPartner with business and product leaders to identify and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.\nChampion open-source AI frameworks and tooling (e.g., Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ray, MLflow, Feast) as the default approach before evaluating commercial alternatives.\n2. Open-Source AI Architecture\nLead the selection, evaluation, and integration of open-source AI and ML frameworks into Company’s enterprise architecture.\nDesign reusable patterns for open-source LLM deployment, fine-tuning, and serving (e.g., vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp, OpenLLM).\nEstablish governance standards for open-source model usage, including licensing review, security scanning, and model provenance tracking.\nBuild internal capability around open-source foundations to reduce vendor lock-in and accelerate experimentation velocity.\nEvaluate and adopt emerging open-source agentic frameworks (e.g., AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph) for retail automation use cases.\n3. AI Solutioning & Design\nArchitect end-to-end AI solutions, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, inference, and system integration.\nDesign AI systems for core retail domains such as:\nSearch, recommendations, and personalization\nDemand forecasting, inventory optimization, replenishment, and allocation\nPricing and markdown optimization\nAI assistants and copilots for store, merchandising, and supply-chain teams\nDefine integration patterns between AI services and retail platforms (POS, OMS, WMS, CRM, e-commerce).\nLead architectural reviews, ensuring solutions meet performance, scalability, security, cost, and reliability requirements.\n4. AI Observability\nDefine and implement an AI observability framework covering model performance monitoring, data drift detection, prediction quality tracking, and system health across all production AI systems.\nEstablish real-time and batch monitoring pipelines for model inference using tools such as Evidently AI, Arize, WhyLogs, Fiddler, or equivalent open-source platforms.\nDesign standardized dashboards and alerting for model degradation, data skew, latency SLO breaches, and feature store anomalies.\nBuild feedback loop infrastructure to capture ground-truth labels and enable continuous model evaluation in production.\nDefine observability standards for GenAI and LLM systems, including hallucination rate tracking, prompt/response logging, latency percentiles, and cost-per-query attribution.\nPartner with MLOps and Platform Engineering to embed observability as a first-class requirement in every AI system from Day 1.\n5. AI Security\nServe as the AI security authority for Company, owning the threat model for all AI and ML systems in production.\nDefine and enforce secure-by-design standards for model development, training data handling, inference APIs, and GenAI integrations.\nArchitect defenses against AI-specific attack vectors, including prompt injection, model inversion, adversarial inputs, data poisoning, and supply chain risks in open-source model adoption.\nEstablish data privacy controls for AI pipelines, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations (e.g., CCPA) and internal data governance policies.\nLead AI red-teaming and adversarial testing exercises to proactively identify and remediate security gaps before production deployment.\nPartner with Information Security, Legal, and Enterprise Risk to maintain an AI risk register and align AI security posture with the organization’s broader cybersecurity framework.\nDefine guardrails, content filtering, and human-in-the-loop safeguards for all customer-facing and associate-facing GenAI applications.\n6. MLOps, GenAI & Governance\nEstablish MLOps and AIOps practices, including CI/CD for models, automated retraining, monitoring, drift detection, and cost controls.\nDefine standards for Generative AI and LLM usage, including multi-RAG architectures, MCP, and vector search.\nDefine prompt orchestration, tool-calling, and agentic workflow patterns.\nEnsure AI solutions comply with data privacy, security, and responsible AI principles.\nPartner with Security, Legal, and Enterprise Architecture to align AI solutions with governance and risk standards.\n7. AI Productivity Tooling Mandate\nPersonally mandate and model the daily use of AI-native productivity tools across all architecture and delivery work.\nEvaluate, recommend, and govern the enterprise use of tools including:\nMicrosoft Copilot - for productivity, code assistance, and enterprise knowledge retrieval\nCursor - for AI-assisted development and code generation within engineering workflows\nGlean - for enterprise search, institutional knowledge management, and AI-powered information retrieval\nClaude (Anthropic) - for complex reasoning, document synthesis, and agentic task automation\nEquivalent or emerging AI productivity platforms as the market evolves\nDefine standards and guardrails for enterprise AI tool adoption, including data classification policies governing what information may be shared with each platform.\nTrain and upskill engineering and cross-functional teams on effective use of AI productivity tooling to multiply output and reduce time-to-delivery.\n8. Technology Evaluation, Implementation & Delivery\nWork closely with AI Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and platform teams to ensure architectures are production-ready and executable.\nProvide hands-on guidance during implementation, including reference code, pipelines, schemas, and infrastructure patterns.\nEvaluate and recommend AI SaaS solutions, cloud services, and frameworks (AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).\nLead build vs. buy vs. open-source decisions and support vendor selection for AI capabilities.\nRequired Qualifications\n9+ years of experience in software, data, or AI engineering, with 5+ years in AI/ML architecture roles.\nProven experience designing and delivering production AI solutions specifically in retail, e-commerce, supply chain, or consumer-facing industries - this is a non-negotiable requirement.\nDeep hands-on expertise with open-source AI/ML ecosystem: Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, Ray, Feast, Evidently, or equivalent.\nStrong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).\nExperience with modern data architectures: lakehouse, streaming, batch pipelines; platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.\nDemonstrated experience designing AI observability systems - including model monitoring, drift detection, and production feedback loops.\nWorking knowledge of AI security threat models, including prompt injection, adversarial attacks, and secure LLM deployment practices.\nHands-on experience with cloud platforms and managed AI/ML services (AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI, or equivalent).\nEstablished practice of using AI productivity tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Glean, or similar) in daily engineering and architecture work.\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex architectures to both technical and business stakeholders.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building or scaling enterprise AI platforms or AI Centers of Excellence.\nContributions to open-source AI projects or published architecture patterns.\nExperience with AI red-teaming, adversarial testing, or formal AI risk assessment frameworks.\nFamiliarity with retail-specific platforms: Manhattan WMS, Blue Yonder, Aptos POS, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or equivalent.\nCloud or AI certifications (AWS ML Specialty, Azure AI Engineer, GCP Professional ML Engineer).\nExplore our benefits site to discover all the perks and support we offer! 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