Senior AI Engineer — Advanced ML/LLM, Hybrid Role

Target; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Target’s Advanced AI team builds end-to-end AI/ML systems that create meaningful business value across the enterprise. You will help build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation, insight, 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering.
• Experience building AI/ML applications at scale.
• Strong Python proficiency and ML frameworks.
• Familiarity with model APIs and orchestration.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and production monitoring.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain production AI/ML apps.
• Develop data and application workflows.
• Create APIs and services for AI systems.
• Ensure security, reliability, and operability of AI apps.

Skills

Python

AI frameworks

LLMs

APIs & services

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Containers

Cross-functional collaboration

Production systems

Code quality/testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Target’s Advanced AI team builds end-to-end AI/ML systems that create meaningful business value across the enterprise. You will help build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation, insight, 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.