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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Lead AI Engineer - Advanced AI

Target Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$132,000 - $286,000 per year

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Description

Target’s Advanced AI team builds end-to-end AI/ML systems that create meaningful business value across the enterprise.

As a Lead AI Engineer for Advanced AI, you will help design, build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation, insight, and action across core business workflows.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for AI engineering initiatives.

Core responsibilities:

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications
  • Work closely with Data Scientists, engineers, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and business stakeholders
  • Provide technical leadership for AI engineering initiatives
  • Evaluate models, frameworks, and tools
  • Write maintainable production-quality code
  • Establish strong engineering practices

Requirements:

  • 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Tech, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent industry experience required
  • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • Strong experience developing AI/ML applications
  • Strong proficiency with Python and experience with modern AI/ML or deep learning frameworks
  • Experience working with model APIs, prompt orchestration, agent development patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, observability tools, cloud ML platforms, containers, or orchestration technologies

Benefits:

  • 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

Nice to have

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