Target
Senior AI Engineer - Circlecard
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$98k-$176kDetected 4 days ago
PythonJavaKotlinSpringDistributed SystemsCode ReviewPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesCI/CDRESTKafkaLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationAccount ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Our services power nearly every aspect of the CircleCard account lifecycle and integrate with numerous enterprise systems.
- Expanding shared platform capabilities, including distributed caching and reusable platform services.
- Automating engineering and operational workflows through intelligent AI agents.
Responsibilities
- AI Engineering Leverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews.
- Collaborate effectively with AI coding assistants and enterprise AI platforms to improve engineering productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, architecture, and maintainability.
- Apply sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated code and technical recommendations through testing, peer reviews, and established software engineering practices.
- Design and build production AI-powered applications using Target-approved AI platforms, frameworks, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve engineering and business problems.
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade autonomous and agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool orchestration, memory management, and multi-step workflow execution.
- Develop domain-specific AI agents and multi-agent workflows using modern orchestration frameworks to automate engineering processes and enhance retail and enterprise experiences.
- Design and implement prompt engineering and Context Engineering strategies to improve application quality, reliability, and relevance.
- Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveraging enterprise knowledge sources, vector search technologies, and semantic retrieval.
- Optimize AI applications for response quality, latency, throughput, token utilization, and inference cost.
- Implement AI evaluation frameworks and apply responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, and observability best practices.
Requirements
- About You Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of AI application architecture, including Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), tool calling, memory management, orchestration patterns, and AI evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python for AI application development, automation, or AI tooling.
- Services Engineering Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin and Java, with experience building microservices using Micronaut and/or Spring Boot.
Compensation
- The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position.
Benefits
- Our Benefits We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.
- 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.
- These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications.
- We bring that vision to life through our values and inclusive culture.
Company info
- CircleCard Account Services (CAS) The CircleCard Account Services (CAS) team builds and operates the enterprise API platform powering Target's CircleCard ecosystem.
- Our platform serves as the central gateway for CircleCard account management, new account booking, payments, servicing, compliance processing, and partner integrations.
- CAS owns a mission-critical platform that enables secure, high-volume financial and non-financial operations across Target.
- Current initiatives include: Building AI-ready platform capabilities and MCP-based tools and services.
- Improving API performance, scalability, resiliency, and observability to support significant traffic growth.
- Building AI-powered engineering productivity capabilities.
- As AI becomes a foundational capability across Target, CAS is investing in intelligent engineering platforms and AI-powered solutions that improve developer productivity, automate operational workflows, and enhance platform reliability.
Equal opportunity
- If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.
- Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support
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