Sr Engineer AI Platform Think Tank (Python, Java, Gen AI, Agentic AI)

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 ENGINER AI PLATFORM TEAM (THINK TANK)

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision tolife through our values and culture.Learn more about Target here.

This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact AI platform capabilities at Target helping shape how engineering teams responsibly adopt GenAI agent-based workflows and scalable AI-powered solutions. You will be part of a platform team focused on innovation engineering excellence operational stability and practical application of emerging AI technologies.

As a Sr Engineer AI on Targets Think Tank Platform Engineering / AI Platform team you will help design build and scale modern AI-powered engineering capabilities that support Targets broader technology ecosystem.

You will own feature development end-to-end contribute to scalable platform solutions support production systems and help advance the responsible use of GenAI and agent-based technologies across the platform. This role requires strong engineering fundamentals hands-on software development experience and the ability to partner closely with product engineering and business stakeholders.

As a Senior Engineer AI Platform you will:

• Participate in Agile team ceremonies including daily stand-ups sprint planning backlog refinement and retrospectives.
• Partner with product managers engineering teams and stakeholders to deepen domain knowledge and align technical work to business outcomes.
• Own feature development end-to-end including design implementation testing deployment and production support.
• Design and implement solutions that are testable supportable secure scalable and aligned with architectural standards.
• Write clean maintainable and secure code across multiple languages and technology paradigms.
• Contribute to code reviews and design reviews to maintain engineering quality and consistency.
• Support operational stability troubleshoot issues and resolve production problems with minimal oversight.
• Participate in on-call support after onboarding and ramp-up.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to research proof-of-concept work and platform innovation.

GenAI and Agent Responsibilities:

• Leverage GenAI tools and AI-assisted development workflows to improve development speed code quality testing and -pilot Skills
• Design build and integrate GenAI-powered applications agent-based systems and orchestration workflows where appropriate. LangGraph LangChain Google ADK python
• Apply strong engineering judgment to validate AI and agent outputs for correctness reliability security and compliance
• Help define and evolve best practices for responsible scalable adoption of GenAI and agent technologies across the platform
• Improve prompting strategies tool usage patterns workflow automation and agent reliability

Core responsibilities of this job are described 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 software development experience
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles distributed systems scalable application design and secure coding practices
• Demonstrated programming experience with Python Java Kotlin or similar object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with Spring Boot/Micronaut or similar backend application frameworks
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging and data movement systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems scalable architecture storage caching and CI/CD practices
• Experience building or integrating GenAI-powered applications or agent-based systems preferred
• Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks tool usage patterns and workflow automation
• Strong understanding of responsible AI practices including output validation guardrails compliance and data security
• Frontend development exposure in JavaScript or TypeScript a plus
• Experience evaluating and improving prompts tool usage agent reliability and AI-assisted workflows
• Experience applying data standards policies and procedures
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to align teams around priorities
• Ability to clearly communicate technical and Agile concepts to product partners and cross-functional stakeholders
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

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.

Benefits Eligibility

In compliance with state and federal laws Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please reach out to Non-accommodation-related requests such as application follow-ups or technical issues will not be addressed through this channel.