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We want to give you more opportunities to learn and grow, so if you find a position you’re interested in below, we encourage you to apply!\nYour Impact\nThe primary goal is to generate AI/ML forecasts that help the business plan for future demand, optimize resources, reduce risk, and make data-driven decisions. Lowe's forecasting platform team is responsible for predicting future trends, outcomes, or events based on current and historical data.\nWork with a Winning Team\nAs part of a Fortune 50 company and retail leader, your work can change an entire industry. Our CEO is a forward-thinker when it comes to tech, and with one of Forbes Top 50 CIOs leading the charge, you can come to work knowing you’ll have access to the data, tools, and support that few other companies can offer. We also know what it takes to create an inclusive culture that supports you.\nOur teams are structured around the engineer, giving you the support you need to do your best work. Since we’ve been in business for over 100 years, we’ve built an excellent track record of growth and success. There’s peace of mind knowing you have the stability and resources you need to focus on solving tough challenges. And as you solve these challenges, know you’ll be surrounded by supportive associates with curious minds who listen to you, respect you, and recognize your hard work.\nWhat You Will Do\nBuild and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, feature engineering, and post-processing pipelines to support model training, inference, analytics, and reporting.\n\nCollaborate with Data Scientists, Product, and Business teams to translate business requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions and production-ready data pipelines.\n\nDesign, develop, deploy, and maintain end-to-end ML systems, including model packaging, registration, versioning, deployment, and serving using platforms such as MLflow, Vertex AI, Kubeflow, or similar MLOps tools.\n\nBuild and optimize batch and real-time inference pipelines for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across cloud and on-premises environments.\n\nImplement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and workflow orchestration for AI/ML models and data pipelines using DevOps and MLOps best practices.\n\nDesign and implement monitoring frameworks to track model performance, data quality, data drift, model drift, and production system health.\n\nBuild reusable libraries, utilities, and platform components that improve engineering productivity and standardize ML development across teams.\n\nDevelop production-quality software components following software engineering best practices, ensuring solutions are scalable, testable, maintainable, and efficient.\n\nPerform root cause analysis, troubleshoot production issues, and participate in code reviews to improve code quality, reliability, and operational excellence.\n\nEnsure AI/ML solutions comply with security, governance, privacy, and organizational standards throughout the development lifecycle.\n\nChampion engineering best practices to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency of AI/ML platforms and pipelines.\n\nSkill Set requirements: Apache Airflow, Cloud Composer, GCP cloud experience, Big Query, Trino/Presto. Experience working on Data Quality/Integrity theme, Tools like Great Expectations. Domain experience on retail forecasting or any other business forecast predictions/time series forecasting.\n Minimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable\n\n2 years of experience in software development or a related field\n\n2 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC) through iterative agile development\n\n2 years experience working with any of the following: frontend technologies (user interface/user experience), middleware (microservices and application programming interfaces), database technologies, or DevOps\n\nPreferred Skills/Education\nMinimum 2 years of experience developing production software and AI/ML applications with large datasets.\n\n2 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software environment and developing and implementing business systems within an organization\n\n1+ year of experience delivering solutions using Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)\n\nMust be well-versed with ML system deployment/release process with live inference, batch inference, and model versioning.\n\nExperience with Data Engineering and building data/ML pipelines.\n\nHands-on experience building robust, reliable, and scalable AI/ML pipelines.\n\nExperience with MLOps tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, or Vertex AI.\n\nFoundational understanding of ML models.\n\nStrong understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).\n\nStrong understanding of software engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, debugging, and writing maintainable, production-quality code.\n\nExperience managing model registry and implementing versioning best practices.\n\nModel serving frameworks. SQL, Python, PySpark. Big Data technologies (Hadoop ecosystem or cloud-native equivalents), Analytics databases, visualization tools, CI/CD and Git.\n\n Benefits\n401k with up to 4.25% match\nDiscounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)\nTuition-Free Education\n10-week Maternity/Parental Leave\n10% Associate Discount\nFor information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits \nAbout Lowe’s\nLowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. 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