Sr. Engineering Manager, Lowe's Innovation Labs

Innovate in Kirkland

This position is based at our Innovation Labs headquarters in Kirkland Washington. Our facility features cutting-edge technology private research and development spaces housing groundbreaking products and open floor plans designed to foster collaboration and creativityall to enhance your work experience.

Your Impact

Lowes Innovation Labs is a specialized innovation unit that keeps Lowes ahead of whats next. We explore disruptive technologies conduct hands-on applied R&D and help the enterprise adopt promising new capabilities with less uncertainty and friction.

The Sr Manager Software Engineering Innovation leads R&D engineering teams that focus on exploring and incubating promising experiences and capabilities for spatial computing platforms next-gen wearables and more all with the goal of creating meaningful capabilities for Lowes customers associates and enterprise.

This leader serves as a player/coach combining hands-on experience with frontier technologies with deep engineering management discipline. Deep experience with emerging platforms and AI-augmented workflowsand the ability to guide multi-disciplinary engineers with diverse backgroundsis a must. This role balances the speed and flexibility required for innovation with experience in navigating large enterprises and forging deep cross-functional partnerships that lead to successful product/platform transitions.

Where Youll Be

Associates are required to relocate to the Lowes Kirkland WA to foster collaboration and support. The ideal candidate must be willing to work in the office at our Lowes Innovation Labs Kirkland office location 5 days per week. Most business meetings are planned around the Pacific Time Zone.

Work with a Winning Team:

As part of a Fortune 500 company and retail leader your work can change an entire industry. Our CEO is a forward-thinker when it comes to tech and with one of Forbes Top 50 CIOs leading the charge you can come to work knowing youll have access to the data tools and support that few other companies can offer. We also know what it takes to create an inclusive culture that supports you. Our teams are structured around the engineer giving you the support you need to do your best work. Since weve been in business for over 100 years weve built an excellent track record of growth and success. Theres peace of mind knowing you have the stability and resources you need to focus on solving tough challenges. And as you solve these challenges know youll be surrounded by supportive associates with curious minds who listen to you respect you and recognize your hard work.

What You Will Do

1. Frontier Technology & Applied AI

• Bring hands-on expertise in frontier technologies including AI generative AI agentic systems robotics computer vision spatial computing digital twins simulation interactive 3D IoT intelligent hardware world models video diffusion neural rendering Gaussian splatting/NeRFs neural reconstruction and neural shading.
• Evaluate emerging technologies platforms and architectures for opportunities limitations risks maturity and applicability to Lowes.

2. Agentic AI & Engineering Innovation

• Design and deploy autonomous AI agents for complex enterprise workflows cross-system data reconciliation and exception handling with human-in-the-loop controls.
• Establish AI-augmented engineering research experimentation testing and communication practices to improve availability cycle time cost compliance throughput and quality.

3. Applied R&D & Portfolio Strategy

• Lead initiatives from exploration and prototype through proof of concept pilot and candidate for scale with clear hypotheses success metrics learning objectives and decision points.
• Balance speculative exploration focused incubation and near-scale initiatives based on technical customer and business signals.

4. Engineering & Team Leadership

• Lead high-performing engineering teams through clear expectations coaching feedback performance management and an inclusive culture of experimentation and learning.
• Establish engineering standards OKRs and practices balancing speed with quality security reliability architecture and operational readiness.
• Identify reusable capabilities architectural patterns tooling and platforms while addressing systemic engineering and organizational barriers.

5. Customer & Business Strategy

• Apply deep understanding of Lowes customers Pros associates operations and partners to technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Use field observations research experimentation data and engineering judgment to influence technical and business decisions.

6. Executive Influence & Communication

• Inspire emerging technology exploration grounded in customer needs learning objectives and business value.
• Communicate Innovation Labs vision recommendations learnings value roadmaps and risks through executive presentations demonstrations and technical artifacts.
• Coach engineers to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science computer information systems (CIS) or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 8 years of IT experience
• 8 years of experience in software engineering or related field
• 8 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of software development life cycles (SDLC)
• 3 years of experience leading project or technical teams with or without formal direct report responsibility; this includes experience providing technical direction thought leadership and coaching and mentoring team members

Preferred Skills/Education

Masters degree in computer science CIS or related field

1. Emerging Technology & AI

• Experience scaling emerging technologies from exploration and prototypes to pilots and production.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and managing initiatives across varying technical maturity and risk.

2. Enterprise Technology & Partnerships

• Experience partnering across architecture infrastructure cybersecurity AI/data platforms startups vendors research institutions and strategic partners to scale solutions.

3. Technology Leadership

• Technology leadership experience in retail home improvement supply chain or large-scale customer-facing industries.
• Experience engaging with senior and executive leadership.

Benefits

401k with up to 4.25% match

Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)

Tuition-Free Education

10-week Maternity/Parental Leave

10% Associate Discount

For information about our benefit programs and eligibility please visit Range: $147400.00 - $280100.00 annually

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including but not limited to position offered location education training and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility please visit

Associate Benefits (

• Working at one of the largest retail companies has its perks. We offer exceptional benefits and wellness programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates tailored for many different lifestyles. Our benefits range from health vision and dental insurance to paid vacation tuition assistance and parental and family-building benefits. Plus we offer learning and development opportunities to help our associates grow their skills and achieve their goals.
• Health Dental and Vision insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Paid time off based on role tenure and locality including vacation holidays sick and volunteer time
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• 401(k) Retirement account with company match
• Employee Assistance Program with concierge work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
• Education support programs including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
• Business Travel Accident insurance
• Maternity and Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Lowes Associate Discount and broad discount platform
• Other discretionary benefits (based on eligibility) include annual bonuses enrollment in Lowes Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan and grant awards

About Lowes

Lowes Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than$86 billion. Lowes employs approximately 300000 associates and operates over 1750 home improvement stores 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowes is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based inMooresville N.C. Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing improving community spaces helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information visit.

Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race color religious creed sex gender age ancestry national origin mental or physical disability or medical condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status military or veteran status genetic information or any other category protected under federal state or local law.