Senior AI Platforms Engineer — Hybrid/Remote

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in Minnesota seeks a Senior Engineer – AI Platforms (Forward Deployed Engineering) to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. You will partner with engineering and product teams to design and productionize AI-powered applications, leveraging enterprise AI platform capabilities and modern frameworks.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and turn ambiguous problems into scalable, production-ready solutions across the full lifecycle, from prototyping to operations, with a

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in software development.
• Experience building production AI-enabled apps.
• Strong programming language skills with modern frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and product teams to design, build, and productionize AI-powered applications and experiences using Target's enterprise AI platform.
• Develop production-grade solutions using generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, enterprise context and retrieval, model APIs, tools, and platform services.
• Rapidly understand ambiguous business and engineering problems, translate them into technical designs, and build working solutions that demonstrate measurable value.
• Lead technical implementation across the lifecycle - exploration and prototyping through architecture, development, evaluation, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Apply strong software engineering and distributed systems principles to ensure AI solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, maintainable, and production-ready.
• Work closely with AI Platform teams to integrate existing platform capabilities and identify gaps encountered while building real‑world applications.

Skills

Software development

AI platforms

APIs design

Cloud-native

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team communication

Education

4-year degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

Target in Minnesota seeks a Senior Engineer – AI Platforms (Forward Deployed Engineering) to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. You will partner with engineering and product teams to design and productionize AI-powered applications, leveraging enterprise AI platform capabilities and modern frameworks.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and turn ambiguous problems into scalable, production-ready solutions across the full lifecycle, from prototyping to operations, with a