Lead Full-Stack Engineer, Advanced AI

Target

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 2, 2026

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $185k
$119k most similar roles pay here $251k

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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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 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 58 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Full-Stack Engineer, Advanced AI

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.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences for AI/ML capabilities.
  • Develop production-grade code for LLM-powered workflows, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Provide technical leadership on architecture decisions and engineering practices like testing, deployment, and observability.
  • Translate ambiguous business requirements into clear technical approaches and scalable product features.
  • Partner with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to integrate complex models into core business workflows.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to the team's technical direction and code quality.
  • Ensure all applications meet enterprise standards for security, performance, accessibility, and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production applications is required.
  • Strong experience building full-stack applications, including user-facing experiences, backend services, APIs, and data-driven workflows is required.
  • Proficiency with modern backend and frontend development is required.
  • Experience with Python is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, or Go is required.
  • Experience building applications that integrate with AI/ML capabilities, including LLM-powered workflows and agentic systems, is required.
  • Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts to diverse stakeholders are required.

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