Join Target’s Advanced AI team to build and run production-grade AI/ML applications that drive automation, insight, and action across core business workflows. This hybrid-flex role supports hands-on development from model and framework integration through deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production support, with collaboration across Data Scientists, engineers, product partners, platform teams, security, and business stakeholders.
You’ll work on end-to-end AI/ML systems that may be powered by LLMs, classical machine learning, or deep learning models, including agentic architectures where they add clear business value. Duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on business needs.
What you’ll do
- Build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications supporting automation, insight, and action across business workflows
- Translate well-defined and moderately ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions in partnership with Data Scientists, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and business stakeholders
- Contribute hands-on to development of production-grade AI applications
- Write maintainable, well-tested code
- Support model and framework integration, including building APIs and services
- Develop data and application workflows
- Participate in deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production support
- Help ensure AI applications are secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Target enterprise standards for infrastructure, platform architecture, data handling, and operational readiness
- Partner with Lead and Principal Engineers to evaluate technical options, identify implementation risks, resolve engineering roadblocks, and improve reusable AI engineering patterns
What you bring
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including building or supporting production systems
- Experience developing AI/ML applications, including LLM-powered applications, applied machine learning solutions, data-intensive applications, intelligent automation capabilities, or agentic systems
- Strong proficiency with Python
- Experience with AI/ML or deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or similar tools
- Experience working with model APIs, prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation approaches, observability tools, cloud platforms, containers, or orchestration technologies
- Understanding of system design and application architecture, including model and framework tradeoffs, experimentation, evaluation, performance optimization, and production deployment considerations
- Experience building maintainable and well-tested services, APIs, data pipelines, applications, or platforms
- Experience with version control, CI/CD, code review practices, documentation, operational monitoring, and production support
- Ability to break down business and technical requirements into clear engineering tasks and deliver practical solutions with cross-functional partners
- Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, and business stakeholders
- Ability to work independently on defined workstreams while collaborating effectively with senior technical partners
- Self-driven, results-oriented approach with strong ownership and sound judgment
- Commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and building reliable AI systems that create business value
Technologies
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Semantic Kernel
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
- Benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond
Pay range: $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 per year.
Location and work arrangement
Brooklyn Park, MN (hybrid)
- Core role performed onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually, depending on role, team, and daily tasks
- Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target
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ADA
- Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
- If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com
