Target
Senior AI Engineer – Apply For CircleCard
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$98k-$176kDetected 4 days ago
PythonJavaKotlinSpringDistributed SystemsCode ReviewPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesCI/CDTemporalRESTKafkaLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationAccountingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position.
- 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.
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
- 4 years of degree or equivalent practical experience.
- AI Engineering: Hands-on experience designing and deploying production AI applications, AI-powered tools, or agentic systems using modern Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Strong understanding of AI application architecture, including Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), tool calling, memory management, orchestration patterns, and AI evaluation.
- Experience optimizing AI applications for quality, latency, token efficiency, and inference cost while implementing responsible AI, governance, and observability practices.
- 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.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems, RESTful APIs, Kafka-based event-driven architectures, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
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Skills
- Passion for applying emerging AI technologies to solve complex engineering and business challenges.
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.
Company info
- Working 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.
- As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product.
- You help develop and gain insight into the application architecture.
- You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation.
- You show expertise in applying the 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 the architecture on your own but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation.
- You show good problem-solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues.
- You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
- About this Team: Apply for Circle Card (AFCC) team is responsible for creating a seamless and efficient Circle Card application experience for our guests.
- Our primary goal is to deliver an instant Approve or Decline decision while increasing the number of successful Circle Card applications.
- Beyond application processing, we also support in-store balance paydowns for Guest Circle Cards and maintain internal tracking of key Circle Card metrics.
- What sets our team apart is our deep expertise and ownership of core backend systems powering the Circle Card journey, along with frontend experience in store registry.
- This breadth allows us to maintain a holistic view and innovate effectively across the guest experience.
- Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
- Engineer, you'll take the lead as you.
- Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.
- Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership.
- Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
- Manage total product, financials and forecasting.
- Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
- Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.
- Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions.
- Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met.
- Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues.
- Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
- Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.
- Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.
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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