# Sr Engineer - AI Platforms - Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) **Company**: Target **Location**: Brooklyn Park, MN **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/7000-Target-Pkwy-NNCD-0375-Brooklyn-ParkMN-55445/Sr-Engineer---AI-Platforms---Forward-Deployed-Engineer--FDE-_R0000475426?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_19701beb-cff ## Description As a Senior Engineer – AI Platforms, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), you will be part of a team focused on accelerating the adoption of Target's enterprise AI platforms by working directly with engineering and product teams to solve complex, high-value AI problems. You will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, platform engineering, and product development, bringing deep technical expertise directly to teams building AI-powered experiences. Responsibilities: - Partner directly 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,from 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. - Identify patterns across FDE engagements and help convert repeatable solutions into reusable platform capabilities, APIs, SDKs, libraries, frameworks, templates, and reference architectures. - Improve the AI builder experience by reducing friction across development, experimentation, testing, evaluation, debugging, deployment, and production operations. - Build reference implementations and examples that demonstrate effective patterns for adopting enterprise AI capabilities. - Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, models, and developer tooling through research and proof-of-concept activities and recommend appropriate approaches based on scalability, maintainability, security, and cost. - Lead code reviews, design reviews, testing, debugging, and architecture discussions while maintaining high engineering quality and operational standards. - Diagnose complex production and integration issues, identify systemic causes, and develop solutions that prevent repeat occurrences. - Collaborate across platform engineering, application engineering, product, architecture, data science, and other teams to deliver solutions spanning organizational and technical boundaries. - Share technical learnings, patterns, and best practices from FDE engagements with the broader engineering community and help other engineers successfully adopt them. Requirements: - 4-year degree or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on engineering and programming skills. - Strong experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production-grade applications, services, or distributed systems. - Experience building AI-enabled applications and working with technologies such as LLMs, model APIs, agentic frameworks, retrieval/context patterns, tool integration, or other modern AI capabilities. - Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, with experience developing services and applications using modern frameworks and engineering practices. - Experience designing and consuming APIs, SDKs, libraries, frameworks, or platform capabilities. - Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, scalability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations. - Experience with cloud-native development, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, testing, debugging, and operational monitoring. - Ability to take ambiguous requirements, rapidly understand the problem space, and translate them into concrete technical designs and working software. - Ability to work across the full engineering lifecycle,from rapid prototyping and experimentation to hardened production systems. - Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and balance speed of delivery with scalability, maintainability, operational excellence, and long-term platform needs. - Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical and operational issues and eliminate repeat occurrences. - Experience collaborating directly with product teams and engineers and working effectively across organizational and technical boundaries. - Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence design and implementation decisions through technical expertise. - Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and raise engineering standards within a team. - Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise and stays current with rapidly evolving AI and software engineering technologies through formal training and self-directed learning. ## Skills ### Required - AI engineering - platform engineering - software development - distributed systems - cloud-native development - containerization - orchestration - CI/CD - observability - testing - debugging - operational monitoring - LLMs - model APIs - agentic frameworks - retrieval/context patterns - tool integration --- Source: [Apply at target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/7000-Target-Pkwy-NNCD-0375-Brooklyn-ParkMN-55445/Sr-Engineer---AI-Platforms---Forward-Deployed-Engineer--FDE-_R0000475426?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)