Lead Full Stack Engineer - AI Platform Team

As a Lead Engineer on the AI/ML and Agent Platform team, you will provide technical leadership and design and build enterprise-grade full-stack capabilities for agent development, orchestration, evaluation, observability, sandboxing, and production execution. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, GenAI, and modern application development to create scalable and intuitive agentic experiences., · Lead the architecture and development of scalable full-stack solutions for agent orchestration, execution, evaluation, and monitoring

· Build reusable capabilities for agent lifecycle management, context and memory, tool integration, model and prompt configuration, secure sandbox execution, and workflow orchestration

· Develop intuitive experiences for building, testing, orchestrating, and managing AI agents and workflows

· Integrate LLMs, AI agents, enterprise tools, and external systems into reliable production-grade solutions with appropriate guardrails

· Build APIs, SDKs, platform services, and developer tools that enable teams to create, test, deploy, and operate intelligent agents

· Develop evaluation and observability capabilities including testing, quality metrics, tracing, monitoring, dashboards, and debugging

· Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, governance, privacy, reliability, and auditability

· Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Architecture, and engineering teams to define and deliver platform capabilities

· Drive scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency across cloud-native systems

· Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards for AI/ML and agentic systems

Core responsibilities of this job are articulated within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 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
• Strong experience building end-to-end applications across 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
• Strong experience designing scalable distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures
• Deep understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, security, and observability
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud-native development
• Experience with agent orchestration, tool calling, prompt management, context management, memory, and multi-agent systems
• Experience building evaluation frameworks for LLMs or AI agents
• Experience with secure sandboxing or isolated execution environments for AI agents
• Knowledge of AI tracing, observability, monitoring, and debugging
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, or model gateways
• Experience developing platform APIs, SDKs, or reusable developer tooling
• Understanding of Responsible AI, governance, guardrails, security, and privacy
• Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure cloud
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams
• Self-driven and results-oriented, with strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards
• Collaborative team player with a commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and building reliable AI-powered applications that create business value, Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

• Target Tech
• Full-time
• $132,000 - $238,000 USD annually

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• 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, MN, US 55445
• Target Tech
• Full-time
• $132,000 - $238,000 USD annually

Job Id: R0000454084

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00

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 https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits., Target offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans. Plus, get free 24/7 virtual care and mental health support.

Financial well-being

Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.

Paid time off

Target encourages work-life balance by offering seven paid holidays, paid sick time, paid family leave, and a flexible paid time off plan that doesn’t require time tracking (unless in a location where it is legally required).

Education assistance

Target’s industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.

Market-leading pay

Target is a proud pay leader in retail and highly competitive with other large companies, providing equitable and competitive pay for all.

Team Target discount

Team members get a 10% discount at all Target stores and Target.com, along with 20% off wellness products and 20% off adult owned-brand apparel and accessories. Plus, get an additional 5% savings with a Target Circle Card. More about pay & benefits

Eligibility requirements may vary based on position, average hours worked, length of service and program requirements. Benefits are subject to change.

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