Job Description
Job Description
About the team and the role
The Inventory Positioning team owns the platform that decides where inventory should go and when — across Nordstrom’s entire fulfillment network of DCs, FCs, and stores. Today, programs like Pack & Hold, Reserve Stock, Returns, and NYC Restocking each run on separate logic with no shared foundation. Our team is building the common platform that unifies them.
At the core is the Inventory Positioning Engine (IPE) — the intelligence layer of the Dynamic Inventory Positioning initiative. IPE owns the Sense and Decide functions of the platform: ingesting signals from across the Nordstrom network and making unit-level placement decisions that optimize for demand, cost-to-serve, and sell-through probability. IPE capabilities span delayed allocation, holdback quantity determination, node selection logic, multi-grain forecasting, inventory awareness, and capacity-aware routing.
As an Engineer Senior 1 on this ...
About the team and the role
The Inventory Positioning team owns the platform that decides where inventory should go and when — across Nordstrom’s entire fulfillment network of DCs, FCs, and stores. Today, programs like Pack & Hold, Reserve Stock, Returns, and NYC Restocking each run on separate logic with no shared foundation. Our team is building the common platform that unifies them.
At the core is the Inventory Positioning Engine (IPE) — the intelligence layer of the Dynamic Inventory Positioning initiative. IPE owns the Sense and Decide functions of the platform: ingesting signals from across the Nordstrom network and making unit-level placement decisions that optimize for demand, cost-to-serve, and sell-through probability. IPE capabilities span delayed allocation, holdback quantity determination, node selection logic, multi-grain forecasting, inventory awareness, and capacity-aware routing.
As an Engineer Senior 1 on this ...
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- Location Seattle, WA
- Job Type Full-time
- Category other-general
- Posted Date June 20, 2026
- Application Deadline June 27, 2026