Great Clips Inc. · 7 hours ago
AI Platform Engineer
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$115K/yr - $135K/yr
7+ years expGreat Clips is the world’s largest haircutting salon brand, and they are seeking an AI Platform Engineer to design and implement cloud-based AI solutions that enhance their products and operations. The role involves building robust AI services, optimizing pipelines, and ensuring the adoption of responsible AI practices to achieve business outcomes.
Retail
No H1B
Responsibilities
Designing and delivering cloud AI solutions —building cloud based APIs, microservices, and event-driven components that integrate models with Great Clips platforms, data, documents and products
Evaluate AI platforms —Evaluate and recommend AI platform providers and options
Implementing LLM Ops —automating training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring; establishing repeatable CI/CD for models and prompts; enabling safe rollback and A/B testing
Operationalizing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI patterns —curating knowledge sources, indexing with vector search, and tuning prompts/evaluations to improve accuracy
Building reliable data pipelines —ingesting, transforming, and serving features with observability, lineage, and governance, in partnership with data engineering
Embedding responsible AI —privacy-by-design, model risk assessment, bias testing, PII handling, guardrails, and secure key/secret management; collaborating with security and governance
Scaling for production —capacity planning, performance optimization, caching, failover, and cost management; instrumenting telemetry to track business impact
Partnering across teams —working with product managers, architects, and salon-facing stakeholders to translate needs into solutions and roadmaps; documenting designs and runbooks
Advocating adoption —creating starter kits, templates, and reference implementations that help teams ship AI features faster while meeting standards
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field
7–10+ years of progressive experience building production software, with 3–5+ years focused on ML/AI engineering (or equivalent)
Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) and one or more of: C#, Java, or JavaScript; expertise with REST APIs
Cloud AI on Azure: Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search (vector), Cognitive Services, Azure Functions, Event Hub/Service Bus, Key Vault
Data & storage: SQL (e.g., SQL Server), NoSQL, data lakes, parquet/Delta, feature stores; vector databases/search systems; performance tuning
MLOps/LLMOps: Azure ML pipelines, model/package registries, version management, offline/online evaluation, drift and quality monitoring
DevOps: Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Bicep/Terraform)
Security & governance: threat modeling for AI systems, secret rotation, RBAC, network isolation, compliance; familiarity with secure data integration and web services
Well-developed communication skills to interact effectively with business partners and vendors; leadership traits including creativity, problem solving, influence, and negotiation
Preferred
Experience with Power Platform (Power Automate, Copilot Studio/agents), D365, SharePoint, Databricks/Synapse/Fabric; Azure AI Engineer or Solutions Architect certifications
Benefits
Health benefits
Wellness programs
A company-matching 401K
Tuition assistance
A focus on your development
A GREAT culture
A spirit of ideas and innovation
Company
Great Clips Inc.
Established in Minneapolis in 1982, Great Clips has grown to be the world's largest and fastest growing salon brand.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
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Rhoda Olsen
Chief Executive Officer
Rob Goggins
President & CEO
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