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.
Overview about TII
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 4000 team members supporting the companys global strategy and operations.
Pyramid Overview
A role with Target Data Science & Engineering 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 Machine Learning teams youll be challenged to harness Targets impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in Marketing Supply Chain Optimization Network Security and Personalization rely on.
Position Overview
Develop a strong understanding of business and operational processes within Targets Team and Ops Finance portfolio
Develop and deploy scalable and reproducible data science models for answering variety of business problems
Work hands on and actively partner across the team defining business problem formalize the problem algorithmically data discovery to insights/predictions and prototype solutions.
Analyze data to identify and propose feature enhancements. Design and implement features to improve scope of the product.
Develop Machine Learning NLP GenAI Optimization models to solve problems in payments and taxation on large data
Integrate models into production code base with robust test coverage
Adopt modular architecture and good software development/engineering practices to enhance the overall product performance
Produce clean efficient code based on specifications
Coordinate the analysis troubleshooting and resolution of issues in the models and software
Generate analyses and other project artefacts to document archive and communicate work and outcomes
Build self-service tools for error detection diagnosis and predictive metrics.
About You
Bachelors/MS/PhD in Mathematics Statistics Operations Research Industrial Engineering Physics Computer Science or other related fields
4 years of relevant experience
Background in supply chain ecommerce fintech will be preferable but not mandatory
Experience in delivering quick POCs with iterative improvement in product outcomes
Strong analytical thinking and data visualization skills. Ability to creatively solve businessproblems innovating new approaches where required
Hands-on experience in deploying ML models with large-scale impactin commercial setting using standard ML Ops framework and tools
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
Highly proficient in programming skills in Python SQL Hadoop/Hive Spark. Additional knowledge of Scala R Java desired but not mandatory
Expertise in at least one advanced AI areas like Deep Learning NLP Transformers GenAI Reinforcement Learning etc.
Extensive experience in developing refining validating deploying ML models to deliver measurable business outcomes
Good working knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts MILP optimization algorithms and computational complexity data analysis data mining forecasting/predictive modeling simulations visualizations and application of same in a variety of business problems
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Able to produce reasonable documents/narrative suggesting actionable insights and recommendations
Passion for solving interesting and relevant real-world problems using Data science approach
Self-driven and results oriented. Willing to stretch to meet tight timelines.
Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/ time to think quick and structure conversations in group setting
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Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.