Lead AI Engineer
Target
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This role pays less than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $192,050–$230,400 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $211k for comparable roles.
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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 58 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 58 roles with salary data.
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As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer on the Advanced AI team, you will design, build, deploy, and maintain application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences that integrate AI/ML capabilities into core business workflows. You will provide hands-on technical leadership to develop production-grade applications powered by LLMs, classical machine learning, or deep learning models, including agentic architectures. Your daily work involves collaborating with data scientists and product partners to transform complex capabilities into scalable tools while establishing engineering practices for testing, deployment, and observability. The role requires proficiency in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, or Go, along with experience in modern web frameworks, service-oriented architectures, and retrieval-augmented generation. You will solve the challenge of creating reliable, secure, and performant systems that translate advanced AI capabilities into practical, high-quality products for enterprise use.
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