Sr AI Engineer

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 and youll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

About Target in India

At Target we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasnt happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Targets global team and has more than 5000 team members supporting the companys global strategy and operations.

Pyramid Overview

A role with Target Data Science means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics Optimization or ML/AI teams youll be challenged to harness Targets impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in Supply Chain and Merchandizing rely on.

Role Overview

As a Sr AI Engineer in the Data Sciences team you will help build deploy and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation insights 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/ML/Engineering systems. 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 Senior 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 agentic systems and modern software engineering practices. A successful Senior AI Engineer will help deliver high-quality ML/AI applications and serving systems 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 in a quantitative discipline (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) or equivalent experience.
5 years of hands-on software engineering experience including building or supporting production DS/ML systems.
Experience building and scaling production ML/AI applications including applied ML solutions intelligent automation and agentic systems.
Strong proficiency in Python with hands-on experience productionizing models and building APIs services data/model pipelines batch or online inference and retrieval/vector-based systems.
Experience with MLOps and production AI practices including model evaluation observability CI/CD containers cloud deployment reliability and performance optimization. Experience with GCP is preferred.
Strong understanding of system design and AI application architecture including model/framework trade-offs experimentation evaluation scalability latency and production deployment considerations.
Experience building maintainable well-tested production systems using sound software engineering practices including version control code reviews documentation monitoring and production support.
Ability to translate business and technical requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions work independently on defined workstreams and collaborate effectively with engineers applied data scientists product partners and business stakeholders.
Strong ownership communication and engineering judgment with a collaborative mindset and a focus on delivering reliable AI systems that create measurable business value.
Experience operating ML/AI systems at scale including performance optimization monitoring experimentation and production reliability. Exposure to LLM evaluation retrieval quality and agent observability is a plus.

• Life at Target- Experience:

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