AI Engineer

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Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determinion. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized th way. We’ve been defined as a “mure start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaborion is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creivity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motived by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find th virtually nothing’s impossible Ulta Beauty.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN MAKE:

We're looking for an AI Engineer to join our growing AI Engineering practice Ulta Beauty. You'll work within a collaborive, senior-heavy team while owning individual contributions th power critical decisions across the company — building agents, pipelines, and integrions from the ground up.

This is a role for someone who moves forward without waiting for perfect conditions, who figures things out when they don't know the answer, and who understands th credibility is built through consistent delivery — not credentials alone.

YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY:

• Build and itere on components for LLM-based applicions — prompt pipelines, tool integrions, RAG pterns — under the guidance of senior engineers, with tention to code quality and production readiness.
• Contribute to the design and implemention of agent-based solutions across the team’s active technology stack.
• Work within enterprise cloud environments to build and deploy AI components, developing fluency with the plforms and tools the team operes on.
• Participe in code reviews as both reviewer and reviewee, developing the habit of giving and receiving technical feedback.
• Engage actively in team rituals and cross-functional discussions, contributing your perspective and absorbing the reasoning of senior engineers.
• Communice technical progress clearly to your immedie team and stakeholders.
• Stay current with developments in the AI engineering space and bring relevant findings back to the team.
• Take ownership of your own development: come prepared, follow through on commitments, and surface blockers proactively rher than waiting for check-ins.

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

• Bachelor's or master's in computer science, engineering, mhemics, or a reled field. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in any domain.
• Demonstrable exposure to the AI space — professional, academic, or through personal projects. We are not looking for a specific number of years; we are looking for genuine engagement with the field.
• Solid programming fundamentals in Python, with an understanding of basic software engineering practices: version control, code structure, and testing.
• Some exposure to cloud plforms (GCP, Azure, or AWS) — enough to navige an environment and understand how services connect.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to understand business goals and communice solutions th meet business objectives.
• Self-driven with a bias toward action: you move forward with wh you have, flag wh you’re uncertain about, and course correct as you learn more.
• Intellectual honesty — you say wh you think, you acknowledge wh you don’t know, and you don’t pretend otherwise.
• A genuine interest in building things th work in production, not just things th work in a notebook.
• Travel may be required (team collaborion / conferences / vendor meetings).

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as Google ADK, OpenAI Agents SDK, or similar orchestrion tooling.
• Experience with tool-use pterns, multi-step agent orchestrion, or MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Exposure to MLOps practices: CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, or pipeline automion.
• Prior work in a retail, e-commerce, or consumer-facing technology environment.

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destinion for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximely 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all cegories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own prive label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store feuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable ste and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiive for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

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