Sr Engineer - AI Platform Think Tank; Python, Java, Gen AI, Agentic AI

Position Overview

Senior Engineer – AI Platform Team (Think Tank). This role offers the opportunity to work on high‑impact AI platform capabilities at Target, helping shape how engineering teams responsibly adopt GenAI, agent‑based workflows, and scalable AI‑powered solutions. You will be part of a platform team focused on innovation, engineering excellence, operational stability, and practical application of emerging AI technologies.

Pay range: $98,000.00 – $. Pay is based on labor markets and may include education, work experience, and certifications.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to deepen domain knowledge and align technical work to business outcomes.
• Own feature development end‑to‑end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design and implement solutions that are testable, supportable, secure, scalable, and aligned with architectural standards.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code across multiple languages and technology paradigms.
• Contribute to code reviews and design reviews to maintain engineering quality and consistency.
• Support operational stability, troubleshoot issues, and resolve production problems with minimal oversight.
• Participate in on‑call support after onboarding and ramp‑up.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to research, proof‑of‑concept work, and platform innovation.
• Leverage GenAI tools and AI‑assisted development workflows to improve development speed, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Co‑pilot, design, build, and integrate GenAI‑powered applications, agent‑based systems, and orchestration workflows where appropriate.
• Apply strong engineering judgment to validate AI and agent outputs for correctness, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Help define and evolve best practices for responsible, scalable adoption of GenAI and agent technologies across the platform.
• Improve prompting strategies, tool‑usage patterns, workflow automation, and agent reliability.

• 4‑year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, distributed systems, scalable application design, and secure coding practices.
• Demonstrated programming experience with Python, Java, Kotlin, or similar object‑oriented languages.
• Experience with Spring Boot, Micronaut, or similar backend application frameworks.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging and data‑movement systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalable architecture, storage, caching, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building or integrating GenAI‑powered applications or agent‑based systems is preferred.
• Familiarity with agent‑orchestration frameworks, tool‑usage patterns, and workflow automation.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI practices, including output validation, guardrails, compliance, and data security.
• Frontend development exposure in JavaScript or Type Script is a plus.
• Experience evaluating and improving prompts, tool‑usage, agent reliability, and AI‑assisted workflows.
• Experience applying data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to align teams around priorities.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical and Agile concepts to product partners and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Maintains technical knowledge and stays current with new and evolving technologies.

Role will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement. Core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ‑MN location assigned and virtually, depending on the team’s daily requirements. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits (medical, vision, dental, life insurance) and programs. Additional benefits include 401(k), employee discount, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. For more information on benefits eligibility, visit

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

06/11/2026