Senior AI Engineer Circlecard

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 AI Engineer (Backend Platform) CircleCardAccount Services (CAS)

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 inclusive culture.

As aSenior AI Engineeryoullcombine deep software engineeringexpertisewith modern AI application development to build intelligent scalable andhighly reliablesystems.Youllserve as a technical leader shaping application architecture influencing implementation decisions andestablishingengineering best practices.

You are equally comfortable designing distributed services and applying Generative AI technologies to solve complex engineering and business problems. Youleveragestrong software engineering fundamentals to build production-grade AI capabilities that are secure observable scalable and cost-efficient.

About the Team:CircleCardAccount Services (CAS)

TheCircleCardAccount Services (CAS) team builds andoperatesthe enterprise API platform powering TargetsCircleCardecosystem. Our platform serves as the central gateway forCircleCardaccount management new account booking payments servicing compliance processing and partner integrations.

CAS owns a mission-critical platform that enables secure high-volume financial and non-financial operations across Target. Our services powernearly everyaspect of theCircleCardaccount lifecycle and integrate withnumerousenterprise systems.

Current initiatives include:

• Building AI-ready platform capabilities and MCP-based tools and services.

• Expanding shared platform capabilities including distributed caching and reusable platform services.

• Improving API performance scalability resiliency and observability to support significant traffic growth.

• Building AI-powered engineering productivity capabilities.

• Automating engineering and operational workflows through intelligent AI agents.

As AI becomes a foundational capability across Target CAS is investing in intelligent engineering platforms and AI-powered solutions that improve developer productivity automate operational workflows and enhance platform reliability.

What Youll Do

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 whilemaintaininghigh standardsfor code quality security architecture and maintainability.

• Apply sound engineering judgment tovalidateAI-generated code and technical recommendations through testing peer reviews and established software engineering practices.

• Design and buildproductionAI-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) solutionsleveragingenterprise knowledge sources vector search technologies and semantic retrieval.

• OptimizeAI applications for response quality latency throughput tokenutilization and inference cost.

• Implement AI evaluation frameworks and apply responsible AI security privacy governance and observability best practices.

• Build reusable AI components frameworks libraries workflows and engineering accelerators that improve developer productivity.

• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities lead proof-of-concept initiatives and recommend adoption strategies that deliver measurable business value.

• Partner across engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into products platforms and software development workflows.

Services Engineering

• Design develop andmaintainhighly scalable AI-ready services usingKotlin Java and Micronaut.

• Build secure high-performance RESTful APIs and event-driven services supporting high-volume retail and financial workloads.

• Design distributed systems usingKafka asynchronous messaging distributed caching and cloud-native architecture patterns.

• Design andoptimizePostgreSQLdatabases including data modeling indexing query optimization and transactional integrity.

• Build resilienthighly availableservices with strong fault tolerance scalability and operational excellence.

• Lead technical design discussions architecture reviews code reviews and implementation planning.

• Improve platform observability usingOpenTelemetry distributed tracing metrics logging and production monitoring.

• Continuously improve application performance scalability resiliency observability and operational health.

• Partner closely with Product Management UX Architecture Infrastructure Data and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.

About You

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale distributed applications and services.

AI Engineering

• Hands-on experience designing and deployingproductionAI applications AI-powered tools or agentic systems using modern Large Language Models (LLMs).

• Experience building autonomous or multi-agent workflows using technologies such asModel Context Protocol (MCP)LangGraphLangChainCrewAIGoogle ADKSemantic Kernel or equivalent orchestration frameworks.

• Strong understanding of AI application architecture includingPrompt Engineering Context Engineering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tool calling memory management orchestration patterns and AI evaluation.

• ExperienceoptimizingAI applications for quality latency token efficiency and inference cost while implementing responsible AI governance and observability practices.

• ProficiencyinPythonfor AI application development automation or AI tooling.

Services Engineering

• Expert-levelproficiencyinKotlinandJava with experience building microservices usingMicronautand/orSpring Boot.

• Strong experience designing distributed systems RESTful APIs Kafka-based event-driven architectures PostgreSQL Redis Docker Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience buildinghighly available resilient secure and observable production services.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong communication collaboration and technical leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers leading design discussions and driving engineering best practices.

• Passion for applying emerging AI technologies to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Why Join Us

CircleCardAccount Services sits at the heart of one of Targets most critical financial platforms. Every day millions of guests and internal systems rely on the services we build.

As a Senior AI Engineeryoullhelp shape the future of enterprise software engineering by combining modern AI capabilities with large-scale distributed systems.Youllbuild intelligent services reusable engineering platforms and production-grade agentic AI capabilities that improve developer productivity strengthen operational excellence and deliver exceptional experiences for Targets guests and team members.

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 rolewill need to beperformedboth onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned toandvirtuallydepending 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. Clickhereif you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.