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