Sr AI Engineer Advanced AI (ML Ops, LLMs, Agentic workflows)

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and 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 benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at TARGET AS A SR AI ENGINEER ADVANCED AI

About Us:

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.

About the Role:

Targets Advanced AI team builds end-to-end AI/ML systems that create meaningful business value across the enterprise. These systems may be powered by LLMs classical machine learning or deep learning models and are designed as scalable reliable production-grade applications including agentic architectures where they add clear value.

As a Sr AI Engineer for Advanced AI you will help build deploy and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation insight and action across core business workflows. You will work closely with Data Scientists engineers product partners platform teams security teams and business stakeholders to turn well-defined and moderately ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions.

In this role you will contribute hands-on to the development of production-grade AI applications. You will write maintainable well-tested code support model and framework integration build APIs and services develop data and application workflows and contribute to deployment monitoring documentation and production support. You will help ensure AI applications are secure reliable maintainable and aligned to Targets enterprise standards for infrastructure platform architecture data handling and operational readiness.

You will also partner with Lead and Principal Engineers to evaluate technical options identify implementation risks resolve engineering roadblocks and improve reusable AI engineering patterns. This role requires curiosity and continuous learning including staying current with developments in AI machine learning LLMs agentic systems and modern software engineering practices. A successful Senior AI Engineer will help deliver high-quality AI applications that create measurable business value while contributing to the technical strength of the team.

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

About you:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience including experience building or supporting production systems.
• Experience developing AI/ML applications including LLM-powered applications applied machine learning solutions data-intensive applications intelligent automation capabilities and agentic systems at scale
• Strong proficiency with Python and experience with AI/ML or deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow LangChain LlamaIndex Semantic Kernel or similar tools
• Experience working with model APIs prompt orchestration retrieval-augmented generation evaluation approaches observability tools cloud platforms containers or orchestration technologies
• Understanding of system design application architecture model and framework tradeoffs experimentation evaluation performance optimization and production deployment considerations for AI systems
• Experience building maintainable and well-tested services APIs data pipelines applications or platforms
• Experience with version control CI/CD code review practices documentation operational monitoring and production support
• Ability to break down business and technical requirements into clear engineering tasks and deliver practical solutions in collaboration with cross-functional partners
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to engineers applied data scientists product partners and business stakeholders
• Ability to work independently on defined workstreams collaborate effectively with senior tech partners and contribute to strong engineering practices within the team
• Self-driven and results-oriented with strong ownership sound judgment and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards
• Collaborative team player with a constant learner mentality knowledge sharing and building reliable AI systems that create business value

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members 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.

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