Target
Retail · Retail
- HQ
- Minneapolis, US
- Founded
- 1962
- Size
- 400,000+
- Website
- target.com
Retail · Retail
Target currently has 28 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 61%, are focused on agents, with data roles making up another 14%. Engineering is the primary function hiring for these positions, with the United States and India each accounting for 14 roles. Frequent technology tags include model serving, agent orchestration, and RAG, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Target has posted 20 new AI roles, representing an 82% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 25 active AI roles, down 87% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $75k–$356k (avg $183k).
Target currently has 38 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Lead Operations Research Scientist (3), Sr Engineer - Target India (3), Director Product Management - Physical Intelligence, Director of Engineering - AI Security, Lead Data Scientist- AML. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Target's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (71%), serving infrastructure (11%), data (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Target is hiring AI talent in: United States (19 roles), India (19 roles).
Job postings at Target most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, llm observability, rag, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, Target has posted 24 new AI-related roles. That is a +50% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 24).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal AI Engineer - Advanced AI (Machine Learning, Python, Deep Learning) Principal AI Engineer focused on building and scaling advanced AI capabilities, including agentic and LLM-powered systems, for enterprise-wide automation and optimization. The role involves deep technical leadership, end-to-end solution design, deployment, and establishing robust engineering practices for production AI applications. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Lead Engineer - GenAI Lead Engineer for GenAI at Target, focusing on designing and implementing autonomous AI agents with multi-step reasoning, task planning, and tool usage. The role involves leading development of agent orchestration frameworks, applying LLMs, building evaluation systems, implementing safety mechanisms, and creating data pipelines for training and inference. It emphasizes productionizing GenAI capabilities and adopting emerging technologies within an enterprise retail context. | Agent |
| 9 |
| Sr Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (Applied ML, NLP, LLMs) Sr. Applied Data Scientist for Target's Search and Browse team, focusing on building and deploying ML models for relevance, retrieval, ranking, and personalization systems in e-commerce. The role involves applying modern ML techniques like embeddings, transformers, RAG, and GenAI to improve product discovery, semantic search, and customer engagement on a large scale with strict performance requirements. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (NLP, Vector Search, LLMs) Principal Data Scientist role focused on building and scaling AI-native commerce discovery systems for Target's digital experience. This involves architecting search and data systems for LLM ingestion, building zero-shot discovery systems, solving natural language search problems, and evolving multi-stage retrieval and ranking architectures. The role emphasizes engineering excellence, low latency, operational reliability, and infrastructure economics, with a focus on integrating with external LLM and agentic search ecosystems. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Lead Engineer Cyber AI - AI Expert Lead Engineer for Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team. Responsible for application architecture, designs, and implementing AI-powered capabilities within the cybersecurity domain. Focuses on evaluating new technologies, initiating research and proof-of-concept activities, and establishing standards for AI systems including LLMOps, reliability, and sustainability. Integrates AI/ML into production solutions, develops custom AI agents, and works with frameworks like LangChain and Huggingface. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Lead Engineer Cyber AI - Cybersecurity Lead Engineer for Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team at Target. This role involves serving as a technical anchor for engineering initiatives, creating and owning solutions, and ensuring they meet functional and non-functional needs. The engineer will work closely with cybersecurity teams to understand existing systems and contribute to new AI-powered capabilities, applying knowledge of emerging AI technologies within the cybersecurity domain. Responsibilities include evaluating new technologies, initiating research and proof-of-concept activities, providing thought leadership, and contributing to foundational AI/ML capabilities. The role requires experience in cybersecurity domains like security operations, incident response, or threat detection, and a strong background in software development (Python) and building scalable distributed systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Engineer - Agentic Commerce Senior Engineer role focused on building agentic commerce experiences using technologies like Kotlin, Micronaut, Python, and LangGraph. The role involves developing agentic commerce gateways, shopping agents, RAG solutions, and intelligent digital agents for personalized shopping experiences across various platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer - Marketing and Corporate Systems (ML Ops) Sr. Machine Learning Engineer focused on MLOps for marketing and corporate systems at Target. This role involves implementing, deploying, and optimizing ML solutions in production, with a focus on personalization and audience creation. Responsibilities include data pipelining, model optimization, deployment, API design, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | Serve | 7 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Merchandising AI (ML Ops) Lead Machine Learning Engineer responsible for creating and optimizing data and models for merchandising AI products. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing production ML solutions, understanding software design best practices, and participating in code reviews. The engineer will also lead the development of agentic AI solutions that integrate data, tools, APIs, and business rules into decisioning workflows, and mentor other engineers. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Director Product Management - Physical Intelligence Director of Product Management for Physical Intelligence at Target, focusing on turning physical environment signals (computer vision, RFID, smart building) into reusable intelligence capabilities. The role involves setting strategic vision, managing a team of product owners, driving product discovery, and leveraging data and analytics to deliver innovative solutions. Requires deep understanding of AI/ML concepts and experience building enterprise capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Engineer - AI Platform Think Tank (Python, Java, Gen AI, Agentic AI) Senior Engineer role focused on building and scaling AI platform capabilities at Target, specifically involving GenAI and agent-based systems. The role involves end-to-end feature development, platform solutions, production support, and advancing responsible AI adoption. Key responsibilities include designing, building, and integrating GenAI applications and agentic workflows, improving prompting and tool usage, and evaluating emerging AI technologies. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Engineer - Malware Reverse Engineering (AI-Augmented Analysis) Senior Engineer focused on Malware Reverse Engineering, leveraging AI-augmented analysis to triage samples, validate machine-generated analysis, and investigate complex malware. The role involves developing reverse engineering skills, analyzing attacker tradecraft, and translating insights into durable detections. Responsibilities include reviewing AI analysis results, identifying inaccuracies, refining analysis, triaging large sample sets, performing targeted reverse engineering on critical code paths, analyzing obfuscation techniques, understanding exploit patterns, and contributing to detection logic development using tools like YARA. The role also involves working with automated analysis pipelines and using Python scripting to enhance tooling. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Data Scientist - Global Supply Chain and Logistics Sr Data Scientist role focused on Global Supply Chain and Logistics, leveraging operations research, simulation, and machine learning to develop and deploy optimization and ML algorithms at scale. Requires strong computer science fundamentals, experience with production deployments, and proficiency in mathematical modeling and programming languages. | Data | 7 |
| Sr Engineer - Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering Senior Engineer role focused on integrating AI/ML capabilities into cybersecurity operational processes and applications at Target. The role involves evaluating new AI technologies, prototyping, and developing AI-powered solutions, with a focus on LLMOps and production deployment. | Agent | 7 |
| Lead Engineer Cyber AI - Full Stack Lead Engineer for Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team. Responsible for application architecture and designs for AI-powered capabilities within the cybersecurity domain. Will evaluate new technologies, initiate research and proof-of-concept activities, and contribute to foundational AI/ML capabilities. Requires full-stack development experience with a focus on prototyping end-to-end solutions. | Agent | 5 |
| Director of Engineering - AI Security Director of Engineering to lead a new team focused on AI Security, developing strategy, roadmap, and capabilities for securing GenAI technologies. This role involves leading security architects, identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, integrating security controls, and providing guidance on secure architecture and coding practices for AI systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Director Enterprise Data Governance Director of Enterprise Data Governance responsible for defining strategy, operating model, and standards to ensure data is trusted, accessible, and AI-ready, enabling scalable AI through governed data. This role involves embedding governance into AI/ML workflows and scaling automation for data quality and observability. | — | 5 |
| Sr Data Analyst - Digital Ecommerce (Math/Stats, A/B testing, ML) This role focuses on leveraging data, statistics, and visualization to generate actionable insights for digital e-commerce performance. It involves data extraction, transformation, and building reports/dashboards using various tools, with an emphasis on A/B testing and leveraging advanced analytics and AI-driven approaches for decision-making. The primary focus is on data analysis and insight generation, touching on ML/AI tools but not core model building. | Data | 5 |
| Sr Operations Research Scientist - Supply Chain Network Optimization (Python, ML, Simulation) This role focuses on applying operations research, machine learning, and simulation techniques to optimize Target's global supply chain. The scientist will analyze large datasets, develop complex algorithms, and build models for areas like purchasing, transportation, inventory, and last-mile delivery. The role requires strong programming skills in Python/R, SQL, and experience with data pipeline building in the Hadoop ecosystem (PySpark). | Data | 5 |
| Senior UX Researcher - Emerging Experiences Senior UX Researcher for Target's Emerging Experiences team, focusing on future-forward guest experiences across digital and physical touchpoints. Responsibilities include conducting qualitative and quantitative research, defining evaluation criteria for adaptive experiences, and translating findings into product direction. Requires 5+ years of UX research experience, comfort with ambiguity, and experience with various research methods, including experimenting with AI. | — | 5 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Observability Senior Engineering Manager for the Observability team at Target, focusing on building and leading a team to deliver enterprise-grade observability platforms. The role involves shaping the technical roadmap for a unified, intelligent reliability platform, scaling telemetry pipelines, and embedding reliability into developer workflows. The team is moving towards AI-driven root cause analysis and autonomous remediation, aiming to evolve from reactive monitoring to AI-assisted and autonomous reliability. | — | 5 |
| Sr Engineer - Enterprise Collaboration & Productivity Senior Engineer on the Enterprise Collaboration team responsible for developing and supporting solutions including chat, content management, and personal digital assistance (GenAI). The role involves applying and maintaining knowledge of current and emerging technologies, evaluating new technologies, and initiating research and proof-of-concept activities. Responsibilities include leading design, lifecycle management, and cost of ownership of services, conducting code and design reviews, and providing technical oversight. The role also emphasizes embedding data quality protocols. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead Engineer - Security Architecture Lead Engineer for Security Architecture at Target, focusing on integrating security into IT system design, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring alignment with business and regulatory requirements. Requires extensive cybersecurity experience, cloud security knowledge (GCP preferred), and strong collaboration skills. | — | 0 |
| Continuous Improvement Manager - Regional Distribution Center - Fridley, MN This role is for a Continuous Improvement Manager in a Target Distribution Center. The manager will lead and own continuous improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving strategies like Lean/Six Sigma. Responsibilities include mentoring teams, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing process optimizations to improve lead-time, quality, and cost. The role requires experience in structured problem-solving, data analysis, and project management. | — | 0 |
| Sr Product Manager - Product Detail Page (PDP) Experience This role is for a Senior Product Manager focused on the Product Detail Page (PDP) experience at Target. The primary responsibilities include owning and evolving the PDP to improve guest confidence, product evaluation, and basket-building outcomes. This involves defining and delivering guest-facing experiences such as product content, reviews, recommendations, and other decision-support features. The role requires leveraging guest research, analytics, and experimentation to identify customer needs and prioritize investments. The Product Manager will partner closely with UX, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Personalization teams to develop product strategies and deliver high-impact solutions. The goal is to transform the PDP into an adaptive, context-aware shopping experience. | — | 0 |
| Sr Admin Assistant - Cybersecurity This role provides administrative support within the cybersecurity domain at Target. It requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a focus on supporting leaders and managing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Experience with Microsoft Office and a four-year degree are preferred. | — | 0 |
| Sr Sourcing Manager- Food and Bev Sr. Sourcing Manager for Target's Owned Brand Food and Beverages, responsible for developing and sourcing products, managing vendor relationships, and driving financial results. Requires experience in merchandising, sourcing, or product development within the food and beverage industry. | — | 0 |
| Sr Designer Senior Designer role at Target focused on product design and development for owned brands across various categories. Responsibilities include leading product research, trend forecasting, concept development, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand cohesion and meet business objectives. Requires strong design skills, market knowledge, and understanding of product development processes. | — | 0 |
| Sr Program Owner Property Management - Stormwater This role is for a Sr. Program Owner focused on Stormwater management at Target. It involves end-to-end program ownership, ensuring regulatory compliance (EPA, NPDES), managing capital and vendor strategies, mitigating environmental risks, and supporting sustainability goals. The role requires leveraging data to identify trends, solve root causes, and drive proactive solutions to reduce costs and environmental impact. It also involves financial accountability for budgets and forecasting. | — | 0 |
| Engineering & Facilities Operations Manager -Regional Distribution Center - Tifton, GA Manages engineering and facilities operations for a regional distribution center, focusing on equipment reliability, maintenance, and team leadership. Responsibilities include developing a maintenance culture, optimizing equipment use, managing contractors, handling emergencies, and driving continuous improvement through data-driven processes. The role also involves team development, performance management, safety oversight, and managing the lifecycle of various site commodities. | — | 0 |
| Brand Experience Lead - Beauty Target is seeking a Brand Experience Lead for their Beauty division to shape and scale the future of Beauty experiences in stores and online. This role will bridge Merchandising, Stores, Marketing, and Learning to translate priorities into engaging store experiences and field enablement strategies. Responsibilities include defining brand presence through team member education, field activation, and experiential engagement, building new operating models, and developing modern learning strategies. The role requires strong cross-functional leadership and experience in retail environments. | — | 0 |
| ICQA Team Member This role is for an Inventory Control and Quality Assurance (ICQA) Team Member at Target's distribution center. The primary responsibilities include auditing and resolving inventory defects, researching root causes, and improving inventory accuracy. The role involves using lean approaches, Six Sigma tools, and 5S techniques, and requires collaboration with leaders and operational teams. It is not directly AI/ML related, focusing on traditional quality assurance and inventory management in a logistics setting. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Target Security Specialist - Flow Center - Hampton, GA This role is for a Senior Target Security Specialist focused on physical security and safety within a Target supply chain facility. Responsibilities include mitigating shortage risks, preventing and investigating theft and fraud, conducting patrols, executing emergency procedures, and supporting new team member onboarding. The role requires strong communication skills, the ability to remain calm in crisis situations, and proficiency in operating various equipment and technology systems. | — | 0 |
| Target Security Specialist - Regional Distribution Center - Rialto, CA This role is for a Target Security Specialist at a Regional Distribution Center. Responsibilities include maintaining a safe and secure work environment, executing physical security program, conducting patrols, managing truck gate operations, and responding to emergencies. The role requires a high school diploma, a valid driver's license, and the ability to remain calm and respond quickly in crisis situations. Experience in security or loss prevention is preferred but not required. | — | 0 |
| Marketplace New Business Development Manager, Baby This role focuses on developing new business partnerships for Target's Marketplace (Target+) to expand its product assortment. The Manager will identify and acquire new brands, vendors, and retailers, working cross-functionally to enhance the digital guest experience. Key responsibilities include executing acquisition strategies, building relationships with partners, and communicating platform value. The role requires experience in digital sales, business development, or merchandising, with a strong emphasis on strategic, analytical, and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Marketplace Senior New Business Development Manager, Acquisition- Health Target is seeking a Marketplace Senior New Business Development Manager, Acquisition to identify, engage, and contract new business partners (DTC brands, vendors, and retailers) for the Target+ Marketplace platform. This role involves building strategies for partner acquisition, understanding the digital marketplace landscape and technical requirements, and managing corporate contracts and complex business agreements. The ideal candidate will have a strong sales or merchandising background with experience in digital marketplaces and contract negotiation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Admin Assistant- Design Engineering and Process Design & Innovation This is a Senior Administrative Assistant role supporting Design Engineering and Process Design & Innovation at Target. The role involves supporting multiple leaders, managing priorities, problem-solving, and maintaining professionalism in a fast-paced environment. It requires strong communication, organizational, and decision-making skills, with a preference for a four-year degree and Microsoft Office experience. | — | 0 |
| Principal Engineer - Security Architecture Principal Engineer - Security Architecture role focused on designing and implementing secure systems, integrating security requirements, and collaborating with technical teams across Target. Requires deep understanding of cybersecurity domains, cloud security (GCP preferred), and risk management. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager – Digital Measurement Product Manager for Digital Measurement at Target, focusing on evolving the digital measurement ecosystem, including standards, tagging, metadata, and governance. The role involves translating measurement needs into requirements, managing backlogs, and partnering with engineering, marketing, and analytics teams to improve data quality and enable self-service measurement capabilities across platforms like Adobe Analytics, Claravine, and Fullstory. | — | 0 |
| Lead Security Engineer – Proactive Security Lead Security Engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling security solutions, assessing risk, and developing mitigation strategies within Target's Proactive Security organization. This role involves defining security requirements, influencing across teams, and mentoring junior members. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Analyst Compliance, Business Partner Experience, Suppler Performance Management This role is for a Sr. Analyst, Compliance within Target's Merchandising Capabilities team, focusing on the Business Partner Experience and Supplier Performance Management. The primary responsibilities include rolling out and improving operational compliance programs, acting as an enterprise consultant for compliance fines, analyzing benchmarking and internal data, and documenting technical needs to enhance the Business Partner Experience. The role requires experience in supply chain, business partner compliance, or merchandising, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to drive new processes. | — | 0 |
| PACKAGING ENGINEER - Home, Seasons & Celebrations, Fun101 Packaging Engineer role focused on developing and optimizing packaging solutions for Target's owned brands, with an emphasis on consumer needs, brand alignment, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. Responsibilities include structural design, material optimization, vendor collaboration, and ensuring compliance with regulations. | — | 0 |
| Associate PACKAGING ENGINEER - Home, Seasons & Celebrations, Fun101 Associate Packaging Engineer responsible for the development of packaging for Target's owned brands, focusing on structural design, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. This role involves collaborating with internal partners, vendors, and suppliers to ensure packaging protects, contains, and displays products while meeting business and consumer needs. | — | 0 |
| Lead Program Manager Supply Chain (Minneapolis) Lead Program Manager for Target's Global Supply Chain and Logistics, focusing on implementing the Unified Plan strategy. This role involves driving program delivery governance, partnering with cross-functional teams, translating strategies into project plans, ensuring financial and operational outcomes, managing risks, and fostering a positive team culture. Requires experience in strategy implementation, large-scale enterprise initiatives, and complex program management. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Project Management Sr Specialist, Store Experience This role is for a Marketing Project Management Sr Specialist focused on in-store experience events and activations at Target. The specialist will manage standardized processes such as intake coordination, creative asset gathering, SOW drafting, vendor agreements, and maintaining store lists and field communication. The role supports Project Managers by executing established processes to ensure efficient delivery of in-store events. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Project Manager, Store Experience Marketing Project Manager for Store Experience Events & Activations at Target. This role involves leading the development of in-store activations, managing project timelines, action plans, and stakeholder alignment. The focus is on guest-centric events, seasonal storytelling, and brand launches, requiring cross-functional collaboration and proactive risk mitigation. The role also involves staying current on emerging trends and innovation within the retail and marketing space. | — | 0 |
| Senior Admin Assistant -Onsite This role provides administrative support to multiple leaders, requiring critical thinking, multitasking, and proactive problem-solving in a fast-paced retail environment. Key responsibilities include managing priorities, anticipating needs, and maintaining professionalism. | — | 0 |
| Segmentation Strategist, Essentials & Beauty This role focuses on developing and executing enterprise-level segmentation strategies for Target, informing assortment, pricing, space, and inventory decisions. It involves analyzing guest, market, and financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations to various business partners, and tracking the impact of these recommendations using key performance indicators. | — | 0 |
| Sr Operations Analyst This role focuses on managing financial operations for Tech investments, including vendor spend, forecasting, and financial reporting. It requires strong analytical skills, stakeholder management, and process improvement capabilities within a corporate technology environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Designer, Design and Strategy Concept Senior Designer for Target's Home Design Strategy & Concept team. This role involves conducting research on consumers and industry trends, leveraging insights to shape Owned Brand identity and create seasonal concepts. The designer will act as a Brand Captain for key brands, ensuring cohesive execution across product categories and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role requires understanding and translating external macro drivers, including the influence of AI, into actionable home-specific direction. | — | 0 |