Build production-grade AI/ML systems on Target’s Advanced AI team, delivering automation, insight, and action across core business workflows. This hybrid/flex role supports hands-on development and deployment of AI applications, including LLM and agentic systems, alongside cross-functional partners to create measurable business value. You’ll work with established engineering practices to help ensure solutions are secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned to Target’s enterprise standards.
What you’ll do
- Build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications that enable automation, insight, and action across business workflows
- Translate well-defined and moderately ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions in collaboration with Data Scientists, engineers, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and business stakeholders
- Contribute hands-on development of production-grade AI applications and related services
- Write maintainable, well-tested code
- Support model and framework integration, including building APIs and services
- Develop data and application workflows, and contribute to deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production support
- Partner with Lead and Principal Engineers to evaluate technical options, identify implementation risks, resolve engineering roadblocks, and improve reusable AI engineering patterns
- Help ensure AI applications meet expectations for security, reliability, maintainability, and operational readiness
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, data-intensive applications, intelligent automation capabilities, or agentic systems
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with AI/ML or deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or similar tools
- Experience 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/framework tradeoffs and production deployment considerations
- Experience building maintainable, well-tested services, APIs, data pipelines, applications, or platforms
- Experience with version control, CI/CD, code review practices, documentation, operational monitoring, and production support
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, and business stakeholders
- Ability to break down requirements into clear engineering tasks and deliver practical solutions with cross-functional partners
- Self-driven, results-oriented ownership with strong judgment and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards
Technologies
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel
Compensation
The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 per year.
Location and work setup
Brooklyn Park, MN (hybrid). This position will operate as a hybrid/flex for your day-to-day work arrangement based on Target’s needs, requiring core role activities both onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually depending on the role, team, and tasks. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.
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
Benefits eligibility and accommodations
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- 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.
