Principal Software Engineer - AIML, ITC

About the role

You will be part of the Data & AI (DAI) team, a dynamic group at the heart of digital transformation. This team designs, builds, and maintains scalable, intelligent, and secure platforms that drive critical decision-making, personalized consumer experiences, and operational excellence throughout the global Nike ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Lead the architectural vision, technical design, and implementation of complex, large-scale data and AI platforms, ensuring they are robust, secure, and highly performant
• Champion best practices in software development, Agentic AI systems, and ML cloud infrastructure, setting high standards for code quality, reliability
• Mentor and coach senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, intellectual curiosity
• Drive adoption of modern engineering methodologies, including automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), MLOps/DevOps practices, test-driven development
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of critical projects, from requirements gathering and solution design, to implementation, monitoring, and optimization

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• Python
• Java
• AWS
• Go
• Machine learning
• LLMs
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• MLOps
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• GCP
• Databricks
• Azure