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We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.\nThe Sr. Engineering Manager - Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) will build and lead a customer-facing engineering team focused on accelerating adoption of Target's AI Platform, including Agent Platform, Context Intelligence, and AI Developer Experience.\nThe FDE team partners directly with engineering and business teams to solve complex problems, provide architecture and implementation guidance, rapidly prototype AI-powered solutions, and translate customer learnings into reusable platform capabilities.\nThis role requires a combination of strong software engineering depth, AI and agentic systems expertise, technical leadership, customer orientation, and people leadership. 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