Principal AI Engineer-Advanced AI

About Us

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400000 team members worldwide Target is an iconic brand and one of Americas leading retailers.Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here we believe your unique perspective is important andyoullbuild relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And thathasnthappened by accident. Some of the best minds fromdifferent backgroundscome together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especiallyapparentin Bengaluru where Target in Indiaoperatesas a fully integrated part of Targets global team and has more than 4000 team members supporting the companys global strategy and operations.

Team Overview

Our Generative AI team oversees the development of Target specific use cases which are of strategic importance toTarget.Wealso support various teams within Target so that they will be able to build productsas per Target standardsregardinguse of responsible AI.

Position Overview

As a Principal AI Engineer - Advanced AI youll join Targets Advanced AI team a centralized group focused on building and owning capabilities that use advanced AI technologies to drive automation insight and action across core business this role youll provide deep technical leadership across enterprise AI initiatives by partnering with engineering product and business teams to shape scalable solution patterns accelerate development and deliver high-impact AI applications that optimize business workflows and create measurable value.

You will help design build deploy and scale end-to-end AI solutions including architecting agentic and LLM-powered systems evaluating and selecting the right models and frameworks and establishing strong observability evaluation and engineering practices to ensure solutions are production-ready maintainable and well-documented. Given the pace of change in this space you will also stay current on emerging technologies recommend tooling and architectural approaches publish learnings for the team and broader organization and influence technical direction and engineering standards across Advanced AI initiatives. We utilize Agile principles follow best-practice software design participate in code reviews and create maintainable well-tested codebases with relevant documentation.

Core responsibilities of this job are articulated within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• PhD or MS in Computer Science Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Applied Mathematics or a related technical field preferred

• Deep experience designing and delivering real-world AI and machine learning solutions including LLM-based agentic or other advanced AI systems in production environments

• 10 plus years of demonstrated hands-on experience in software engineering and applied AI/ML development - including Python and modern ML / deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or similar tools

• Extensive experience with AI engineering tooling and platforms such as agent development frameworks model APIs evaluation and observability frameworks cloud ML platforms containers and orchestration technologies

• Strong understanding of system design model and architecture tradeoffs experimentation evaluation strategy performance optimization and production deployment considerations for AI systems

• Experience building scalable maintainable and well-tested services or platforms including version control CI/CD code review practices and operational monitoring

• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical approaches and create strong technical documentation narratives and recommendations for a range of audiences

• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical partners and leaders

• Self-driven and results-oriented with strong ownership sound judgment and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards in a fast-evolving domain

• Collaborative team player with experience working effectively across functions organizations and geographies and with a demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing

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