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VF Corporation
VF Corporation
H1B Visa SponsorFashionManufacturingRetail
VF Corporation is a global apparel, footwear, and accessories company operating across manufacturing, fashion, and retail. Its portfolio includes well-known lifestyle brands such as The North Face, Vans, and Timberland, with products that combine performance, style, and everyday use. The company also focuses on sustainability and innovation across its operations and product development.
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Principal Agentic AI Engineer at VF Corporation

Lead the engineering of pro-code and low-code agentic AI platforms for VF Corporation’s apparel brands. Set standards for Azure, Copilot Studio, governance, observability, evaluation, and developer enablement.

USUnited StatesCOColoradoNCNorth Carolina
$159,840 – $199,800 / year
On-siteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware Engineer
AzureGraphQLPythonTerraformTypeScript

Description

  • Act as a hands-on technical leader within VF Corporation’s centralized Agentic AI team.
  • Lead pro-code delivery of production-ready agentic AI, including custom agents, multi-agent orchestration, complex integrations, and tailored solutions.
  • Support low-code development across brands and business functions with guardrails, reusable patterns, templates, and governance.
  • Own the pro-code extension layer for Copilot Studio, including custom connectors, Power Platform dataflows, custom actions, and reusable component libraries.
  • Deploy multi-agent orchestration, MCP server integrations, human-approval workflows, and Copilot Tuning.
  • Define governance for agent lifecycle management, naming, environments, DLP, Entra Agent ID, telemetry, analytics, and cost tracking.
  • Architect and develop custom agentic applications with Azure AI Foundry.
  • Develop and maintain RAG pipelines, vector databases, agent evaluation systems, benchmarks, LLM-as-judge workflows, red-team harnesses, and regression suites.
  • Implement agent tracing, monitoring, observability, Application Insights, and custom telemetry.
  • Apply responsible AI safeguards, including guardrails, content safety filtering, PII detection and masking, prompt-injection protection, and bias mitigation.
  • Create and deliver tiered Copilot Studio training for business analysts, power users, and technical builders.
  • Develop and publish VF’s Agent Developer Guide and governance-approved agent template gallery.
  • Measure developer adoption, business value, quality, and governance compliance.
  • Move citizen-developed agents to pro-code implementations when low-code capabilities are insufficient.
  • Design connections between agent platforms and enterprise systems through connectors, APIs, MCP servers, and event-driven architectures.
  • Set standards for agent memory, state management, and context handling.
  • Produce production-quality TypeScript, Python, or C# and develop CI/CD and deployment automation.
  • Deliver unit, integration, evaluation, human-review, and performance testing.
  • Establish and enforce agent quality standards and automate governance controls.
  • Create observability dashboards spanning brands and business functions.
  • Lead incident response, remediation, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience for Senior level or 12+ years for Principal level.
  • 2+ years working specifically with AI/ML systems, conversational AI, or agentic AI platforms.
  • Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, covering both low-code authoring and pro-code extensions.
  • Strong production experience with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Prompt Flow, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Agent Service.
  • Proficiency in at least two agent frameworks outside the Microsoft ecosystem, such as LangChain/LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or comparable orchestration tools.
  • Deep knowledge of multi-agent orchestration, tool use and function calling, RAG, embedding strategies, evaluation methods, guardrails, and MCP.
  • Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript, Python, or C#.
  • Experience designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs, event-driven systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code with Bicep or Terraform, and containerized applications.
  • Excellent communication skills when working with engineering colleagues and business leaders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, AI/ML, engineering, or a related discipline; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Experience with Sierra AI or a comparable platform for consumer-facing customer service agents.
  • Background in Power Platform administration, governance, and toolkit deployment.

Benefits

  • Additional compensation may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission opportunity.
  • VF Corporation’s benefits program includes medical coverage; plan rates and other details are provided during the hiring process.
  • VF Corporation provides equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals.

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