Target
Sr Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) AI Platforms team
$98K–$176K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Education
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Accelerates adoption of Target’s enterprise AI platforms by partnering with product and engineering teams to build production AI applications and turn successful implementation patterns into reusable platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications, from prototyping through production.
- Integrate enterprise AI platform capabilities and identify gaps; develop reusable APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and reference implementations.
- Guide engineering quality through architecture and code reviews, troubleshooting, mentorship, and sharing technical patterns.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Experience building and operating production-grade applications, services, or distributed systems.
- Experience building AI-enabled applications using capabilities such as LLMs, model APIs, agentic frameworks, or retrieval/context patterns.
- Strong programming skills and experience with APIs, cloud-native development, and production engineering practices.
Pay
$98,000.00 - $176,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, model APIs, agentic frameworks, retrieval/context patterns, APIs, SDKs, CI/CD
AI focus
Build and productionize AI applications using generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, enterprise context and retrieval, model APIs, and platform services; evaluate emerging AI technologies and improve enterprise AI platform capabilities.
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