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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - AI Platforms (ML, LLMs, APIs, ML Ops)

Target•Brooklyn Park, NC
•$132,000 - $238,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on AI Platforms, you will accelerate adoption of Target’s enterprise AI platform by partnering with product and engineering teams to solve technical challenges, enable platform capabilities, and help teams build and operate production-grade AI applications. The role combines hands-on AI and software engineering with solution architecture, technical guidance, and development of reusable tools and solutions. It operates across AI engineering, platform engineering, and product development, drawing on expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, LLMs, and agentic systems. You will learn from real-world implementations and use those insights to improve the broader AI platform. Working across engineering teams, you will identify recurring challenges and adoption friction, then help turn successful implementation patterns into scalable platform capabilities. As a lead, you will independently design and implement production-grade architectures, guide complex engineering efforts, help teams navigate tradeoffs, and promote engineering quality while connecting technical decisions to long-term platform and product outcomes. The role is described as Hybrid/Flex for Your Day based on Target’s needs, with work performed onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually as required by the role, team, and tasks. The position may also be considered for a remote arrangement based on business needs. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. The application deadline is December 10, 2026.

Requirements

  • A four-year degree or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience, with strong hands-on engineering and programming skills.
  • Expertise in software architecture, design, distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native technologies, and modern engineering practices.
  • Demonstrated programming proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, or Kotlin.
  • Hands-on experience building and productionizing AI applications using LLMs, agentic architectures, model APIs, retrieval/context patterns, tool integration, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Ability to lead complex technical initiatives from design through production, guide architectural decisions, and navigate ambiguous engineering challenges across teams or systems.
  • Experience with production engineering practices, including CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, performance, security, and operations.
  • Experience developing reusable engineering patterns, technical tooling, reference implementations, APIs, SDKs, or platform capabilities that improve platform adoption and engineering efficiency.
  • Ability to provide technical guidance, influence engineering decisions, and improve engineering practices through collaboration, architecture reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Effective communication and technical judgment, including the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex technical engagements that accelerate enterprise AI platform adoption, combining solution architecture, hands-on engineering, and technical guidance to help teams move from experimentation to production.
  • Design, build, and productionize AI solutions, reference implementations, technical tooling, and platform-support capabilities using LLMs, agentic architectures, enterprise context and retrieval, model APIs, and tool integrations.
  • Guide technical design and implementation across engineering efforts; help teams navigate architectural decisions, troubleshoot challenges, and develop scalable, maintainable solutions.
  • Apply software engineering and distributed systems expertise to improve the reliability, security, performance, observability, and operational readiness of production AI systems.
  • Identify recurring implementation challenges, integration gaps, and platform limitations, and collaborate with platform engineering to develop reusable patterns, APIs, SDKs, frameworks, and shared capabilities.
  • Establish and improve engineering practices across engagements, including architecture reviews, code quality, testing, evaluation, deployment, and production operations.
  • Collaborate across product, engineering, and platform teams to evaluate technical approaches, share implementation learnings, and improve enterprise AI capability adoption.
  • Maintain technical knowledge and stay current with evolving AI and software engineering technologies through formal training and self-directed learning.

Benefits

  • Eligible team members and dependents may receive medical, vision, dental, and life insurance, among other health benefits and programs.
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

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