Senior AI Platforms Forward Deployed Engineer
Target
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This role pays less than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $159,875–$254,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $137k versus about $207k 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 92 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 67 roles with salary data.
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As a Sr Engineer - AI Platforms / Context Intelligence (API's, search, information retrieval, agentic workflows), you will join the Context Intelligence team to build an enterprise knowledge foundation for AI applications and agents. You will design and operate scalable retrieval services, memory systems, and knowledge ingestion pipelines that enable semantic and hybrid search. Your daily work involves developing retrieval-augmented generation patterns, grounding, and context orchestration capabilities to ensure high-quality AI experiences. You will utilize technologies including vector databases, embeddings, Kubernetes, and containerized services to manage distributed indexing and metadata synchronization. The role requires expertise in information retrieval, distributed systems, and platform engineering to solve complex challenges regarding knowledge access, observability, and production-grade reliability for agentic workflows and large language model-powered systems.
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