Software Engineer AI - Computer Vision [T500-29586]

About Costco Wholesale:

Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in eleven countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience for their members.

About Costco Wholesale India:

At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing innovative solutions that improve members’ experiences and make employees’ jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale.

Position Summary:

Innovation Software Engineers are responsible for designing, developing, and implementing complex technology solutions. Individuals in this role collaborate closely with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide design, technical analysis, development/configuration, testing, implementation, and support expertise representing the interest of the business across the enterprise. In this role, individuals participate in and lead design sessions and provide leadership for ongoing development efforts on various innovation projects. The Costco Innovation team is focused on finding and developing new technologies to support our continued success in the future. A successful Innovation Engineer will think outside the box using strong technical and creative skills to deliver end-to-end proofs of concept, prototypes, production software, and device solutions. Additionally, this role will partner with key Costco teams to leverage their experience and knowledge to ideate, define, and deliver technological solutions for use within all areas of the business.

Job Duties/Essential Functions:

• Develops or prototypes software modules at various levels of complexity, including but not limited to service interfaces, process flows, service messages, SOA components, business logic, UI/UX, or data access logic.
• Develops efficient code in various development languages for enhancements and bug fixes.
• Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software solutions and process flows complying with standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• Executes against project plans and delivers assignments within scope, schedule, and budget.
• Creates, executes, and evaluates unit/integration tests.
• Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards.
• Identifies, assesses, and formulates architectural impacts and solutions from business requirements.
• Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards.
• Analyzes user needs and software/hardware requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, including the ability to estimate work needed.
• Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.
• Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents.
• Provides implementation expertise contributing to rollback, post install, data migration, and other artifacts as required including creation of support plans.
• Adheres to security management practices and promotes established security standards.
• Identifies and resolves problems, often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow, develops and evaluates options, and implements solutions.
• Designs, defines, documents, and delivers rapid end-to-end proof of concepts, prototypes, production software, and device solutions.
• Develops solutions independently as well as together with localized and distributed teams, using modern development and agile methodologies.
• Leverages the latest technology innovations to constantly invent and simplify.
• Ability to provide technical support of innovative solutions that are being incubated within production with end-users
• Understands and adheres to Costco’s project methodology and framework.
• Seeks opportunities to: learn, automate, document, share, mentor, and improve processes where appropriate.
• Interfaces with and provides technical leadership to others in the IT division and business to address ongoing business needs.
• Works with third parties, business, and internal Costco IT teams to meet the needs of the projects and initiatives. …