Sr. Staff Engineer AI Incubation

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What you will be doing

The AI Incubation team sits within theData & AIorganization and helps identify shape and accelerate high-value AI opportunities across the business. This includes advancing AlbertsonsFour Big Bets in AI:digital customer experience merchandising intelligence empowering associates and leaders and end-to-end supply chain optimization.

The AI Incubation team has an opening for a Sr. Staff Engineer AI (AI Incubation). This position is located in Pleasanton California.

Position Purpose

The Sr. Staff Engineer AI (AI Incubation) will partner with business product and technology leaders to identify shape and accelerate high-value AI opportunities across the enterprise. This is a senior role for a leader who can move fluidly from problem framing to solution design from stakeholder alignment to execution planning and from incubation to enterprise scale.

Success in this role will come from the ability to convert ambiguity into clear priorities credible solution paths and measurable business outcomes. The role will help connect incubation priorities to Albertsons Four Big Bets in AI and improve the quality and speed with which ideas move from concept to deployment.

Why this role matters

This role sits at the front end of Albertsons AI transformation where enterprise priorities are translated into practical solutions with scale potential. It offers direct exposure to senior stakeholders high-value problem spaces and the opportunity to shape how AI is deployed across one of the largest grocery and pharmacy retailers in the U.S.

Main responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leaders to identify prioritize and frame high-value AI opportunities tied to enterprise strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships across business product and technology teams to strengthen the AI incubation funnel and improve cross-functional alignment.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into clear problem statements solution hypotheses business cases and roadmaps.
• Orchestrate cross-functional teams across product engineering data architecture security and platform functions from discovery through pilot and production readiness.
• Shape AI initiatives across customer merchandising marketing loyalty operations supply chain pharmacy and corporate domains.
• Design enterprise-scale AI solution architectures spanning Data ML Foundation Models RAG Agentic Systems AI Platforms and enterprise integrations with robust governance and production readiness.
• Build prototypes and evaluate emerging AI capabilities including foundation models prompting strategies retrieval architectures and agent orchestration patterns to accelerate production adoption.
• Establish reusable AI reference architectures engineering standards and solution accelerators that enable scalable secure and cost-effective AI adoption across the enterprise.
• Establish success metrics experimentation plans and adoption pathways that improve speed-to-decision and value realization.
• Accelerate initiatives from concept to pilot or production-ready design while improving the quality of governance evaluation and handoff into enterprise deployment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering platform and data science teams influencing architecture and engineering decisions through deep technical expertise.
• Drive technical excellence by defining best practices for AI evaluation observability governance performance safety and operational optimization.

We are looking for candidates who possess the following:

• Bachelors or masters degree incomputer science Engineering Data Science Analytics or a related field.
• 10 plus years of relevant experiencein AI-led transformation AI solutions consulting product strategy enterprise architecture or related roles.
• Demonstrated ability to move fromexecutive-level ambiguityto clear hypotheses product prototypes decision points and action plans.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder leadership skills with the ability to influence across business product and technology teams.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and deploying production-scale AI systems across multiple enterprise AI layers including Machine Learning Foundation Models Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Agentic Systems and AI Platforms with Data Engineering serving as the foundational competency.
• Experience building enterprise-grade AI applications using modern AI frameworks such as LangChain Semantic Kernel LlamaIndex LangGraph or equivalent technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to establish reusable engineering patterns technical standards and enterprise AI best practices.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve and clarity must be created.

Preferred Background

• Experience in AI transformation innovation incubation internal strategy solutions consulting product leadership or enterprise architecture within large enterprises with exposure on AI Enterprise GenAI AI Agents Multi-agent systems AI Platform Engineering Model Evaluation AI Governance LLMOps MLOps Vector Databases & Enterprise AI Security
• Experience in or exposure toretail grocery ecommerce loyalty merchandising supply chain or pharmacy environments.
• Background fromtop-tier consulting firms Fortune 100-scale retailers hyperscaler AI/solutions organizations or high-growth AI companiesis a plus.
• Familiarity with responsible AI privacy security and risk considerations in enterprise or customer-facing deployments.

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly

• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical Dental 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation holidays sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

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