# Principal Engineer – AI Platforms, Forward Deployed Engineering and AI Builder Experience

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,000.00 - $356,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer – AI Platforms, Forward Deployed Engineering and AI Builder Experience to join our team.

The pay range for this role is $168,000.00 - $356,000.00, based on several factors including labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications.

As a Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for how engineering teams across Target build, integrate, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications.

Key responsibilities include:

- Architecting and delivering production-grade AI solutions, including agentic and LLM-powered applications

- Establishing scalable patterns for model and agent integration, enterprise context, evaluation, observability, deployment, and production operations

- Translating real-world implementation experience into improvements to the AI platform

- Identifying recurring challenges and patterns across forward deployed engagements and turning those learnings into reusable APIs, SDKs, frameworks, developer tooling, reference architectures, and self-service platform capabilities

- Providing technical leadership for the end-to-end AI developer experience, including onboarding, development, experimentation, testing, evaluation, debugging, deployment, and observability

Requirements:

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline or equivalent industry experience

- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale software platforms, developer platforms, AI/ML systems, or distributed systems in production environments

- Strong hands-on software engineering experience and demonstrated ability to architect and deliver production-grade systems

- Experience designing and delivering AI applications, including LLM-powered or agentic systems, and understanding of model integration, context and retrieval patterns, tool integration, evaluation, and production operations

- Experience building developer-facing capabilities such as APIs, SDKs, frameworks, libraries, developer tooling, templates, or self-service platform experiences

Benefits include:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- AI
- ML
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Platforms
- Containers
- Orchestration
- CI/CD
- Operational Monitoring

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