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You will collaborate closely with Design, Product Management, and Engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate our retail offerings.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nLead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable. Using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach\n\nNavigate the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team\n\nLeverage critical thinking, lead lean experimentation and influence decisions backed by data and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes\n\nEstablish and lead product engineering and software standards and continuously elevate existing standards using the new ones in the industry \n\nMentor junior team members in pairing sessions, one-on-ones and ad-hoc as the need arises, and create teachable moments\n\nContribute to cultural transformation by modeling partnership, collaboration, and technical initiatives and giving and receiving feedback regularly both within the team and across the organization\n\nChampion XP practice and knows when to customize it for effectiveness and also engages in conversations around practice, processes and community\n\nAdditional tasks may be assigned\n\nAddendum\n\nSTAFF AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER\n\nDesign and build modular, headless AI backend services, advanced RAG architectures, and multi-agent orchestration workflows (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI).\n\nConstruct enterprise-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways, Application Programming Interface (API) integration/mediation layers, rate limiters, and security proxies that allow autonomous agents to safely read and write to enterprise systems.\n\nDevelop lightweight, streaming simulation frontends (\"Dry-Run\" interfaces) solely to validate agent behaviors, prompt strategies, and human-in-the-loop workflows during pilot discovery.\n\nCollaborate with Applied/Data Science and Machine Learning specialists to fine-tune Small Language Models (SLMs), execute weight quantization (AWQ/GPTQ), and optimize GPU memory utilization for high-throughput inference.\n\nInstrument distributed tracing, token utilization logging, and inference latency telemetry across the AI stack.\n\nPackage reusable code libraries, containerized microservices, and integration SDKs for domain delivery and implementation teams.\n\nArchitect resilient Compound AI Systems that orchestrate dynamic routing between deterministic APIs, specialized SLMs, and frontier LLMs.\n\nRequirements\n\n6+ years of demonstrated experience building and scaling production applications using foundation models, RAG, or agentic workflows\n\n6+ years of experience integrating AI applications securely with enterprise data, APIs, and identity/access controls\n\n4+ years of experience evaluating and optimizing AI application quality, latency, reliability, and cost\n\nWhat Skills You Have\nRequired\n\n6+ years of experience in software development\n\nProven ability to manage multiple competing priorities\n\nAdvanced knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies\n\nExperience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning\n\nDemonstrated experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)\n\nKnowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development\n\nPreferred\n\nBachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field\n\nFamiliarity and experie\n\nEssential FunctionsThe requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. 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