Engineer, Trend Brain Team (Backend/GenAI)

Target

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$75,400–$135,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $202k
This role $106k
$55k most similar roles pay here $266k

This role pays less than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $157,150–$246,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $106k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Target

Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

Target currently has 66 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 50 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineer, Trend Brain Team (Backend/GenAI)

Engineer – Trend Brain Team (Backend/GenAI) joins the Trend Brain team to build intelligence gathering and research automation tools that accelerate the design process. The engineer will integrate new trend signal sources into an automated multi-agent trend-sensing ecosystem while implementing, deploying, scaling, and maintaining agentic workflows in partnership with data scientists. Key responsibilities include providing traditional and agentic capabilities to merchants and researchers to ensure consistent, actionable, and transparent results. The role requires proficiency in at least one computer language, preferably Python and emerging GenAI Python frameworks. Candidates must understand distributed programming, persistence and indexing strategies for data retrieval, and computer science fundamentals. This position focuses on solving the technical problem of automating trend research within a rapidly evolving GenAI ecosystem to support timely, informed business decisions.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $190000 from 246 postings across 56 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Integrate new sources of trend signal into an automated multi-agent trend-sensing ecosystem.
  • Implement, deploy, scale, and maintain agentic workflows in partnership with data scientists.
  • Develop robust and scalable software components that balance speed of delivery with system robustness.
  • Actively review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
  • Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.
  • Provide traditional and agentic capabilities to merchants, trend researchers, and designers.
  • Ensure the trend research ecosystem produces consistent, actionable, and transparent results.
  • Maintain technical knowledge of the rapidly evolving GenAI ecosystem.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • Candidates must have 1+ years of software development experience.
  • Candidates must demonstrate experience with and a sustained interest in the evolving GenAI ecosystem.
  • Proficiency in at least one computer language is required.
  • Proficiency in Python and emerging GenAI Python frameworks is preferred.
  • Candidates must demonstrate strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of different persistence and indexing strategies to support efficient, reliable data retrieval is required.
  • Understanding of distributed programming concepts and their application to a domain is required.

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