*** This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping Best Buy’s App Growth team. You’ll establish and grow a talented team of engineering professionals while embracing inclusive leadership behaviors, working through ambiguity, demonstrating strong attention to detail, and thriving in a fast-paced environment. In addition to mentoring and fostering the professional growth of team members, you will take an active part in the technical design and implementation of features in the Best Buy mobile app.The App Growth team is responsible for making the Best Buy mobile app a must-have for our customers. We design and build app-exclusive features and optimize the in-app experience to engage and retain our users. We also promote the mobile app at relevant points on BestBuy.com to encourage customers to take advantage of the capabilities offered by the app.What you’ll doLead a team of engineers and establish best-practices around agile development principlesTake responsibility in ensuring team's high code qualityResponsible for the SDLC process and implementing agile ceremonies and practices on theIdentify needed skills and capabilities on the team and work to fill those roles through hiring and trainingCollaborate between designers, engineers and product managersMentor and delegate work to encourage the growth of your team members and their career journey.Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedbackKeep up with industry trends and be an advocate for standards and best practices Build pragmatic, innovative and highly scalable solutions by leveraging engineering best practices, patterns and modern technology Build effective, intuitive user experiences focused on customer experienceShow a commitment to delivery deadlines, in particular seasonal and vendor partnerIdentify needed skills and capabilities on the team and work to fill those roles throughWork with multiple teams and stakeholders on small, medium and large scale initiativesBasic qualifications 5 or more years of relevant experience 1 or more years of experience managing or leading engineering teams2 or more years of recent mobile development experience with React Native, IOS and/or AndroidPreferred qualifications 7 or more years of relevant experience Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field3 or more years of mobile development experience with React Native, IOS and/or Android1 or more years of development experience with Java, Groovy, Spring, GraphQL, Rest API's and similar technologies 2 or more years of leading teams using agile planning principles with Kanban or similar iterative approach for estimating, planning, retrospectives, etc.Ability to triage and manage complex, production issuesWhat’s in it for youWe’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.Our benefits include:Competitive payGenerous employee discountFinancial savings and retirement resourcesSupport for your physical and mental well-beingAbout usAs part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Associate Director, Applied AI

Best Buy, Richfield

As an Associate Director, Applied AI, you’ll take the lead driving design, development, and applications of cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms across multiple technical teams to build innovative services, and products that solve the company's hardest problems and accelerate Best Buy's core growth. In this role you will combine strategic thinking with your leadership skills, strong software engineering expertise and deep knowledge of AI algorithms to lead technical efforts architecting, developing, and operationalizing models, algorithms, and production quality applications that unleash the next generation of customer experiences and transform the way Best Buy operates day-to-day. This role is remote eligibleWhat You'll DoLead design and development of large-scale AI solutions Manage, mentor, coach and partner with a global team of ML Engineers & Scientists leveraging the best software engineering and AI techniques to solve real business problems benefitting millions of Best Buy customers dailyUtilize broad and deep knowledge of software engineering, AI and machine learning to contribute to the roadmap of Best Buy’s core AI capabilities.Learn & have fun!Basic Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research or related) or equivalent experiencePrior experience building, deploying, and serving real-time ML/AI models with ultra-low latency and high throughput, as resilient, scalable, cloud native services with engineering excellence AI, machine learning and algorithmic background with good understanding one or more of the following areas: supervised & unsupervised learning, embeddings, reinforcement learning, deep learning, Gen AI8 years of experience building ML/AI driven products or other related functions (e.g. software engineering, data science). Advanced degrees in relevant fields may be counted towards experience requirements.3 years of experience managing a team of machine learning engineers & scientistsFluency in Python and industry recognized ML/AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn..)Strong software design and implementation skills with a general-purpose programming languagesPreferred Qualifications:Master's degree or Ph.D in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research or related)Multi -cloud and multi-region integration experienceExperience with one or more of the following: CI/CD, MLOps, DataOps and Orchestration platforms like KubeFlow, Airflow, MLFlow, Spark, Argo for end-to-end model building, training, serving and monitoring Experience building ML/AI solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with SeldonStrong SQL and functional programming skills to review code written by other ML EngineersAbility to effectively communicate technical information to a wide spectrum of cross-functional team members including Product, Data, Infrastructure and Engineering teams.Exposure to supply chain optimization Open source contributions or GitHub portfolio What’s in it for youWe’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.Our benefits include:Competitive payGenerous employee discountFinancial savings and retirement resourcesSupport for your physical and mental well-beingAbout usAs part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.