Senior AI Engineer - Circlecard

## Senior AI Engineer - Circlecard Apply locations:
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445time type:
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RThe pay range is $98,000.00 - $Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.

Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at
** Senior AI Engineer (Backend Platform) – Circle Card Account Services (CAS)
**** About Us
** Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and inclusive culture.

As a
** Senior AI Engineer**, you'll combine deep software engineering expertise with modern AI application development to build intelligent, scalable, and highly reliable systems. You'll serve as a technical leader, shaping application architecture, influencing implementation decisions, and establishing engineering best practices.

You are equally comfortable designing distributed services and applying Generative AI technologies to solve complex engineering and business problems. You leverage strong software engineering fundamentals to build production-grade AI capabilities that are secure, observable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
** About the Team:
Circle Card Account Services (CAS)
** The Circle Card Account Services (CAS) team builds and operates the enterprise API platform powering Target's Circle Card ecosystem. Our platform serves as the central gateway for Circle Card account management, new account booking, payments, servicing, compliance processing, and partner integrations.

CAS owns a mission-critical platform that enables secure, high-volume financial and non-financial operations across Target. Our services power nearly every aspect of the Circle Card account lifecycle and integrate with numerous enterprise systems.
** Current initiatives include:
*** Building AI-ready platform capabilities and MCP-based tools and services.
* Expanding shared platform capabilities, including distributed caching and reusable platform services.
* Improving API performance, scalability, resiliency, and observability to support significant traffic growth.
* Building AI-powered engineering productivity capabilities.
* Automating engineering and operational workflows through intelligent AI agents.

As AI becomes a foundational capability across Target, CAS is investing in intelligent engineering platforms and AI-powered solutions that improve developer productivity, automate operational workflows, and enhance platform reliability.
** What You'll Do
**** AI Engineering
*** Leverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews.
* Collaborate effectively with AI coding assistants and enterprise AI platforms to improve engineering productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, architecture, and maintainability.
* Apply sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated code and technical recommendations through testing, peer reviews, and established software engineering practices.
* Design and build production AI-powered applications using Target-approved AI platforms, frameworks, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve engineering and business problems.
* ** Design, build, and deploy production-grade autonomous and agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool orchestration, memory management, and multi-step workflow execution.**
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