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These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.\nJOIN TARGET AS A SR ENGINEER - AI PLATFORMS - FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING\nAbout Us:\nWorking at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.\nAs a Senior Engineer - AI Platforms, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), you will be part of a team focused on accelerating the adoption of Target's enterprise AI platforms by working directly with engineering and product teams to solve complex, high-value AI problems.\nYou will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, platform engineering, and product development, bringing deep technical expertise directly to teams building AI-powered experiences. You will help teams move from experimentation to production by designing and implementing solutions, integrating enterprise AI platform capabilities, and establishing scalable engineering patterns.\nA key part of this role is learning from real-world implementations and using those insights to improve the broader AI platform and builder experience. You will identify recurring technical challenges and work with platform teams to turn successful implementation patterns into reusable components, APIs, SDKs, frameworks, tooling, reference implementations, and self-service capabilities.\nAs a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight into application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You demonstrate expertise in applying appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement architecture independently while influencing fellow engineers through software designs, implementation guidance, code reviews, and technical mentorship.\nUse your skills, experience, and talents to be part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering, you’ll take the lead as you:\nPartner directly with engineering and product teams to design, build, and productionize AI-powered applications and experiences using Target's enterprise AI platform.\nDevelop production-grade solutions using generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, enterprise context and retrieval, model APIs, tools, and platform services.\nRapidly understand ambiguous business and engineering problems, translate them into technical designs, and build working solutions that demonstrate measurable value.\nLead technical implementation across the lifecycle-from exploration and prototyping through architecture, development, evaluation, deployment, observability, and production operations.\nApply strong software engineering and distributed systems principles to ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, maintainable, and production-ready.\nWork closely with AI Platform teams to integrate existing platform capabilities and identify gaps encountered while building real-world applications.\nIdentify patterns across FDE engagements and help convert repeatable solutions into reusable platform capabilities, APIs, SDKs, libraries, frameworks, templates, and reference architectures.\nImprove the AI builder experience by reducing friction across development, experimentation, testing, evaluation, debugging, deployment, and production operations.\nBuild reference implementations and examples that demonstrate effective patterns for adopting enterprise AI capabilities.\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, models, and developer tooling through research and proof-of-concept activities and recommend appropriate approaches based on scalability, maintainability, security, and cost.\nLead code reviews, design reviews, testing, debugging, and architecture discussions while maintaining high engineering quality and operational standards.\nDiagnose complex production and integration issues, identify systemic causes, and develop solutions that prevent repeat occurrences.\nCollaborate across platform engineering, application engineering, product, architecture, data science, and other teams to deliver solutions spanning organizational and technical boundaries.\nShare technical learnings, patterns, and best practices from FDE engagements with the broader engineering community and help other engineers successfully adopt them.\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.\nAbout you:\n4-year degree or equivalent experience.\n5+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on engineering and programming skills.\nStrong experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production-grade applications, services, or distributed systems.\nExperience building AI-enabled applications and working with technologies such as LLMs, model APIs, agentic frameworks, retrieval/context patterns, tool integration, or other modern AI capabilities.\nStrong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, with experience developing services and applications using modern frameworks and engineering practices.\nExperience designing and consuming APIs, SDKs, libraries, frameworks, or platform capabilities.\nStrong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, scalability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations.\nExperience with cloud-native development, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, testing, debugging, and operational monitoring.\nAbility to take ambiguous requirements, rapidly understand the problem space, and translate them into concrete technical designs and working software.\nAbility to work across the full engineering lifecycle-from rapid prototyping and experimentation to hardened production systems.\nDemonstrated ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and balance speed of delivery with scalability, maintainability, operational excellence, and long-term platform needs.\nStrong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical and operational issues and eliminate repeat occurrences.\nExperience collaborating directly with product teams and engineers and working effectively across organizational and technical boundaries.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence design and implementation decisions through technical expertise.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and raise engineering standards within a team.\nMaintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise and stays current with rapidly evolving AI and software engineering technologies through formal training and self-directed learning.\nThis position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.\nThis position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as \"Flex for Your Day\") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.Benefits Eligibility\nPlease paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_DAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\nIn compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. 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