Lead Engineer Cyber AI - Full Stack

Pay

Pay range is $132,000 – $238,000. Pay is based on several factors such as labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications. Target invests in your health and well‑being with comprehensive benefits for you and your family, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Additional benefits include 401(k), employee discount, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

As a lead engineer on the Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team, you serve as the technical anchor for engineering initiatives. You create, own, and are responsible for the application architecture and designs that best serve the product’s functional and non‑functional needs. You have deep and broad engineering skills and can stand up an architecture on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”.

This role requires close collaboration with cybersecurity teams to understand existing applications, systems, and operational processes, and to contribute to new AI‑powered capabilities that meet Target’s standards. You will apply your technology acumen to current and emerging AI technologies in the specialized cybersecurity domain, evaluate new technologies, participate in decision‑making and provide technical guidance on viability, maintainability, and cost of ownership, and initiate research and proof‑of‑concept activities.

You will lead cross‑functional collaboration, promote reuse, and develop consistent, scalable patterns. You will contribute to foundational capabilities to enable AI or machine learning activities. You will provide suggestions for routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues as appropriate, gather and analyze information, develop plans, set milestones, monitor workflow and risks, and lead complex construction, automation, and implementation activities to meet architectural and operational requirements.

• Full‑stack engineer who can prototype end‑to‑end solutions including UI and backend components.
• Experience developing in Java, Kotlin, Python, React, Type Script, HTML, CSS, Postgre
  
  SQL or other RDBMS.
• Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, development, and iterative delivery with tight coordination with internal customers.
• Interest and passion for AI and Cybersecurity.
• 4‑year degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full‑cycle implementation.
• Strong domain‑specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities and key competitors’ products.
• Broad and deep expertise in multiple programming languages and frameworks (including open source); designs, develops, and approves end‑to‑end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure.
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders.
• Expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Understand and develop solutions to foster data lifecycle management.
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise.
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self‑directed education.
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. The role requires performing core duties both onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually, depending on team and task requirements for each day. Work duties must be performed within the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Eligible team members receive the comprehensive benefits described above.

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.acc