$190K – $237.5K/yr
● Strong current hiring demand for this role
Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties. At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset. About the team The AI/ML Platform pod builds Fanatics' internal AI platform: the paved road for every team building with LLMs, MCPs, and agents. Gateway, agent runtime, registry, retrieval, evaluation, and cost analytics, all running on a petabyte-scale lakehouse with enterprise-grade governance. You'll join a pod that owns this platform end to end. This is a Staff-level role, and a hands-on one. You will choose the architecture, define the standards other teams build to, and stay in the code, shipping the hardest parts yourself. The decisions you make are ones the organization lives with for years. Responsibilities • Own the end-to-end architecture of the AI control plane: gateway, agent runtime, registry, retrieval, evaluation, and cost. Set technical direction, sequence the roadmap, and make the build-versus-buy calls. • Build the enterprise LLM gateway: multi-provider routing, failover, caching, rate limiting, token optimization, and key management, with a path to self-hosted open-weight models where cost, latency, or data residency call for it. • Build the Agent/MCP ecosystem on a managed runtime such as AWS BedrockAgentCore: enterprise systems exposed as governed tools over MCP, a control-plane registry for discovery,
