Target
Lead Full Stack Engineer - AI Platform Team
$132K–$238K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex systems and initiatives.
- Education
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- Visa sponsorship
- Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.
About the job
Leads the design and development of Target’s AI/ML and agent platform, enabling teams to build, orchestrate, evaluate, monitor, and run AI agents in production.
What you'll do
- Architect and build scalable full-stack platform capabilities for agent development, orchestration, execution, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Create APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and intuitive experiences for building and managing agents and workflows.
- Provide technical direction and mentorship while ensuring platform security, reliability, governance, and performance.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex systems and initiatives.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python, plus experience with backend services/APIs and modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.
- Experience building production AI/ML or GenAI applications using LLMs, agents, or agentic workflows.
- Experience with scalable distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud-native development.
Nice to have
- Experience building LLM or agent evaluation frameworks and secure sandboxing or isolated execution environments.
- Experience with RAG, vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, model gateways, or platform APIs and SDKs.
Pay
$132,000.00 - $238,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, React, TypeScript, Kubernetes, GCP
AI focus
Builds enterprise AI/ML and agent platform capabilities, including orchestration, tool integration, context and memory, evaluation, observability, sandboxing, and production execution.
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