We believe great engineers ship great software, so we are hiring an AI Engineer who lives and breathes SQL. Think of it less as a job and more as a $95,000 - $145,000 bet JCPenney is placing on your 5 years and your judgment.
Key Responsibilities
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
- Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
- Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
- Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable LangChain acceptance criteria
- Sketch the Accountability architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
- Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
- Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
- Stitch Mentoring events into the XGBoost pipeline feeding JCPenney's technology reports
What You'll Bring
- An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
- 5 or more years steering technology projects end to end
- Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable
- The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
- Real proficiency with Emotional Intelligence, plus willingness to learn MLOps fast
- Comfort with the contract cadence of a Kent-based operation
Three things define JCPenney: a Kent address, a small-but-mighty culture, and a near-religious devotion to Python. We hire for character and deeply technical thinking, then trust the rest to follow.
Beyond the $95,000 - $145,000 headline, we hand you a mentor, room to grow into mid-level work, and the freedom to shape your own week.
The search is live, the seat is funded, and we are interviewing this week.
Don't just bookmark this AI Engineer posting in Kent, act on it and apply today.