AI Engineer II

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day.

If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience. JOB

Description

7-Eleven is looking for an AI Engineer II to join the Enterprise AI Team! At 7-Eleven, we’re creating the next generation of convenience, and we know that the best way to do that is with great people. If you get excited about working on challenging problems and owning a solution from concept to implementation, read on.

About the job: You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team of scientists, researchers, designers and engineers who research and innovate on latest technology to create awesome digital products that millions of people will experience every day. You will be responsible for building and deploying AI/ML solutions that improve customer experience, enable innovative user experiences, and increase store revenue.

Engineers in the Enterprise AI team have solid technical background but enjoy learning new languages, technologies, and frameworks. From creating an experimental machine learning prototype to deploying a production-ready backend, engineers at 7-Eleven take many hats to see projects to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Research, prototype, and develop software solutions to solve problems across retail.
• Stay up to date with emerging technology and learn new technologies/libraries/frameworks.
• Learn and partner with peers across multiple disciplines, such as data, product, and systems design.
• Deliver on time with a high bar on quality of research, innovation and engineering Basic

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with feature engineering and core statistical techniques. 2+ years of experience training, evaluating and deploying AI/ML models into production, specifically AI solutions that involve LLMs. 2+ years of experience building complex AI systems with Vector Databases, Memory etc. 2+ years of experience with productionizing and deploying ML workloads in the major cloud providers.
• Databricks experience preferred.
• Familiarity with containerized application tooling and deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering/Math, or relevant experience.
• Extra Credit: Experience with databases, API and backend development.
• Experience delivering production quality systems leveraging emerging technologies, including AI Assisted coding tools.
• *Position not eligible for sponsorship *Position is onsite and based in Irving TX.
• #LI-PG1 If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting.
• The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range.
• This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state.
• This range may be modified in the future.
• No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans.
• The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
• For a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in the US for the position, please visit this link.
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• As proud founders of the world’s first convenience store, 7‑Eleven’s top priority has always been to give customers the most convenient experience possible to consistently meet their needs.
• 7‑Eleven aims to be a one-stop shop for consumers – a place people can always rely on to deliver what they want, when, where and how they want it.
• This goal continues to shape 7‑Eleven’s ethos, driving 7‑Eleven’s expansion into operating Speedway®, Stripes®, Laredo Taco Company® and Raise the Roost® Chicken and Biscuits, with locations, as well as proprietary products and services including 7NOW®, 7Rewards®, Speedy Rewards® and 7‑Eleven Fleet™, throughout the U.S.