Engineer – Trend Brain Team (Backend/GenAI)

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Short term disability

Long term disability

Paid sick leave

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Job summary

Target seeks an engineer to join the Trend Brain team, delivering scalable software for intelligence gathering and design automation. You will integrate new trend signals, deploy agentic workflows, and collaborate with data scientists to deliver timely, informed insights for merchants and designers.

The role emphasizes GenAI expertise, modern software practices, and a hybrid work arrangement at Target's MN location, with an evolving technology stack and a focus on reliability.

Qualifications

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience is required.
• 1+ years of software development experience required.
• GenAI plays a central role in this product and familiarity is expected.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language; Python preferred.
• Knowledge of persistence/indexing strategies supports data retrieval.
• Understanding distributed programming and strong CS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Integrate new trend sources into an automated multi-agent system.
• Implement, deploy, scale and maintain agentic workflows with data scientists.
• Provide traditional and agentic capabilities to merchants, researchers and designers.
• Ensure the trend research ecosystem yields consistent, actionable results.
• Stay informed about evolving GenAI ecosystems and related tools.

Skills

Software development experience

GenAI ecosystem familiarity

Distributed programming concepts

CS fundamentals

Package solutions concepts

Education

4 year degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

Job description

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $135,700.00. Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In 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 selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

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.

As an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

About This Team

The Trend Brain team builds intelligence gathering and research automation tools to enrich and accelerate the design process at Target.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Integrate new sources of trend signal into our automated multi-agent trend-sensing ecosystem.
• Implement, deploy, scale and maintain agentic workflows in partnership with data scientists.
• Provide a combination of traditional and agentic capabilities to Target’s merchants, trend researchers and designers to help keep Target make timely, informed decisions about what consumers want.
• Ensure that our rapidly growing trend research ecosystem produces consistent, actionable, transparent results.
• Help our team stay abreast of a rapidly evolving GenAI ecosystem.

Core responsibilities 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
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• GenAI plays a central role in this product. Successful candidates will demonstrate both experience with and sustained interest in the evolving GenAI ecosystem.
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects.
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language. Preferably Python and emerging GenAI Python frameworks.
• Demonstrates knowledge of different persistence and indexing strategies to support efficient, reliable data retrieval.
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Demonstrates strong computer science fundamental.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s 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

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Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

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