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Principal Engineer, Agentic Applications

The Gap

  • Folsom, California
  • 4 days ago

    Highlights

    Mentor data and agent engineers across delivery pods and vendor-augmented teams by building alongside them, not just reviewing PRs; represent agentic engineering in architecture reviews with senior technology leadership. Shape the data strategy for how structured and unstructured design and sourcing assets are ingested, embedded, structured, and exposed as reliable, reusable AI-ready data products — that provide features for sciences and ontology + context for multi-agent loops.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationFolsom, California
    IndustryAll
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Websitehttp://www.gap.com

    Description

    About the Role

    In this role, you will bridge creative design, product creation, and the global supply chain for Gap Inc. This is not a research role — you will build and ship AI/ML-backed multi-agent workflows that turn structured & unstructured data, mood boards, tech packs, fabric specs, vendor collaboration, etc. into live, sometimes autonomous, production decisions.

    As a senior, hands-on engineering leader, you will direct the technical standards of the agentic systems that allow our business to operate at AI-native speed and scale. You will drive this transformation while owning the agentic application and AI-ready data designs, and co-owning the reference architecture and agent framework for our product-to-market journey.

    What You'll Do

    • Own Technical Standards. Set and enforce engineering standards, contracts, and integration patterns — including interoperability protocols such as MCP/A2A — for agentic solutions across digital apparel design tools, PLM systems, vendor management, procurement, compliance, logistics, etc. Set the engineering definition-of-done, establishing system quality through evaluation gates (LLM-as-judge, golden datasets) rather than subjective opinion

    • Architect Agent-Ready Data. Shape the data strategy for how structured and unstructured design and sourcing assets are ingested, embedded, structured, and exposed as reliable, reusable AI-ready data products — that provide features for sciences and ontology + context for multi-agent loops

    • Co-Own the Agentic Reference Architecture. With peer AI/ML platform teams, design the agent harness (including trust frameworks), core orchestrator pattern, semantic/business-context layers, and the tool contracts for the ML and data platforms while being model agnostic

    • Lead Complex Product-to-Market Agent Workflows. Build and deploy multi-agent systems that orchestrate tool-use and multi-step reasoning across Design, Development, and Sourcing — auto-generating BOMs, negotiating RFPs, allocating materials, etc.

    • Partner on Guardrails & Governance. Drive FinOps including cost-aware routing across Vertex Model Garden based on latency, cost, and capability, backed by real data. Collaborate closely with Trust, Security, and Governance teams to ensure agents ship safe, grounded, entitlement-aware, and gated against non-deterministic failures

    • Elevate the Engineering Bar. Mentor data and agent engineers across delivery pods and vendor-augmented teams by building alongside them, not just reviewing PRs; represent agentic engineering in architecture reviews with senior technology leadership 

    Who You Are

    • 12+ years, hands-on. In software/data/ML engineering, with recent experience building and shipping production AI/ML systems — ideally LLM-based agents or multi-agent orchestration, not just classical ML pipelines. You're still writing and reviewing code by choice, not solely reviewing architecture diagrams

    • Staff/Principal/Architect track record. At a large, complex enterprise, you've set technical standards that other engineering teams were expected to follow, not just proposed them

    • Production agent and cloud AI experience. Comfort with orchestration patterns (e.g., LangGraph, custom orchestrators, or equivalent), and hands-on depth with at least one major cloud AI stack (GCP/Vertex preferred). You've built or owned LLM-as-judge pipelines, golden datasets, or comparable quality gates for a production AI system, not just discussed them conceptually

    • Comfortable with conflict. Across engineering, sciences, platform, senior leadership, and security, you stand behind core design principles and rigor

    About Company

    Doris and Don Fisher opened the first Gap store in 1969 with a simple idea -- to make it easier to find a pair of jeans and a commitment to do more. Over the last 46 years, the company has grown from a single store to a global fashion business with five brands -- Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix. Gap's clothes are available in 90 countries worldwide through 3,300 company-operated stores, almost 400 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites and is still growing. Many companies work to improve their services and businesses every day by using GAP Testers who anonymously go into various places and report back to the companies on everything from cleanliness, customer service to quality control. Being a tester is a very flexible, fun job with lots of benefits.

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