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 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.
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).
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| Sr Engineer - Incident Response Engineering This role is for a Senior Engineer on the Incident Response Engineering team, focusing on SOAR engineering, automation, integrations, and data pipeline capabilities to enhance security operations tooling. The engineer will design, build, and maintain automations and integrations to improve incident response efficiency and scale, working with cross-functional teams to translate operational needs into technical solutions. Experience with SOAR platforms and data pipelines is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Engineering and Facilities Operations Manager - Upstream Distribution Center - Suffolk, VA Manages engineering and facilities operations for an upstream distribution center, focusing on equipment reliability, maintenance culture, team leadership, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include managing maintenance technicians, optimizing material handling equipment, overseeing contractors, ensuring safety procedures, and managing the lifecycle of site commodities. | — | 0 |
| Lead Engineer – Cyber Visibility UI Development Lead Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a SIEM platform, including frontend applications and backend services. The role involves mentoring engineers, owning technical architecture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver security detection features and tools. Key responsibilities include full-stack development, API integration, troubleshooting, and improving observability and reliability. |
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| Engineering and Facilities Operations Manager - Fulfillment Distribution Center - Woodbury, MN Manage the operations and maintenance of a supply chain facility, focusing on equipment reliability, team leadership, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include leading maintenance technicians, overseeing equipment health, managing contractors, ensuring safety compliance, and driving data-driven problem-solving to optimize facility performance. | — | 0 |
| Forklift Operator- Overnight, (6PM – 6AM) Operates forklifts and pallet jacks to move product in a warehouse, stage product for production lines, prepare finished work for shipment, load/unload trailers, and log receipts in warehouse software and Excel. Requires ability to lift 50 pounds and basic PC/data entry skills. | — | 0 |
| Forklift Operator (6 AM-6 PM) Operates a forklift to move raw and finished materials within a production facility, stages materials for production equipment, and assists with shipping and receiving. Requires physical ability to stand, lift, bend, and use motor skills, along with basic record-keeping and communication skills. | — | 0 |
| Corrugate Die Cut Feeder Operates and maintains printing machinery, focusing on quality output, safety, and data collection within Target Printing Services. | — | 0 |
| Sr Manager, Corporate Development Senior Manager, Corporate Development role at Target, focusing on evaluating and executing strategic acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, partnerships, and divestitures. Responsibilities include performing valuation analyses, building financial models, developing business cases, and managing deal execution to support Target's inorganic growth strategy. | — | 0 |
| Food and Beverage Coordinator - Little Rock/Memphis Areas This role focuses on managing and improving food and beverage operations within a retail market, including coaching store leaders, ensuring food safety and freshness, managing inventory, and driving sales growth. It involves market-level expertise, competitor analysis, and execution of seasonal plans. | — | 0 |
| Lead Automation Integration Engineer (OT Specialist) (Minneapolis) Lead Automation Integration Engineer (OT Specialist) responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the integration of automation systems within distribution warehouses. This includes ensuring interoperability between OT and IT systems, developing automation solutions for material flow, and implementing robust OT security frameworks. The role involves collaboration with cybersecurity partners, risk assessments, and staying updated on OT security threats. | — | 0 |
| Litho Mount Feeder (Dayside) This role involves assisting a Litho Mount Operator in finishing printed materials, feeding the delivery end of equipment, ensuring quality standards, maintaining a safe work environment, and recording production data. It requires a high school diploma, attention to detail, ability to follow instructions, and physical capability for lifting and standing for long periods. Prior experience with Litho Mount equipment is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Lead Engineer - Roundel, Target Product Ads Lead Engineer for Target's Roundel media business, focusing on Target Product Ads (TPA). This role involves defining and evolving application architecture for scalable, reliable, and secure ad delivery systems, evaluating new technologies, driving engineering standards, and leading the design, development, and lifecycle management of services. The position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, JVM languages, and experience with technologies like Spring Boot, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with GenAI frameworks and AI-assisted development tools is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Lead Data Analyst- Merchandising Analytics Essentials and Beauty This role is for a Lead Data Analyst focused on Merchandising Analytics, specifically within the Essentials and Beauty categories at Target. The primary responsibilities involve creating tools and data products to enable data-based decision-making, focusing on data sourcing, visualizations, and providing actionable insights. The role supports strategic merchandising initiatives with data, reporting, and analysis, and plays a key part in identifying A/B testing opportunities. Key tasks include exploring data, deriving business insights, gathering, modeling, analyzing, and presenting data, creating ad hoc analyses and dashboards, and developing new data and metrics for a new initiative. The role requires strong SQL, Python/R skills, statistical analysis knowledge, and experience with various analytics tools. It is a hybrid role based in Minneapolis, MN. | — | 0 |
| Engineer - Stores & Supply Chain This role builds and maintains applications and technology for Target's retail and fulfillment network, focusing on scalable and reliable systems for operations, checkout, fulfillment, and inventory management. It involves partnering with data scientists to leverage machine learning for operational improvements and guest experience enhancement. | — | 0 |
| Bindery Specialist (Overnight) Operates bindery equipment to finish and kit printed marketing, promotional, and training materials. Assists with kitting and assembly projects and supports large equipment operators. Materials produced are used in stores, for recruiting, and shipped to guests. | — | 0 |
| Lead Automation Engineer Design Engineering (Minneapolis) Lead Automation Engineer responsible for designing and managing supply chain automation projects to enhance speed, accuracy, and efficiency in Target's internal supply chain. This role involves evaluating technologies, partnering with internal and external teams, and ensuring the successful deployment of automation solutions. | — | 0 |
| Director of Threat Detection Operations Director of Cybersecurity - Threat Detection Operations at Target, leading the vision, strategy, and execution of enterprise threat detection capabilities. This role oversees people, technologies, and processes for detecting cybersecurity threats, evolving detection engineering, improving signal quality, operationalizing threat intelligence, and enabling rapid investigation and response. Responsibilities include developing strategy, managing detection use cases, addressing gaps, building stakeholder relationships, leading initiatives, coaching teams, and communicating technical risks. | — | 0 |
| Production Controller - Food DC - Upper Marlboro, MD This role is for a Production Controller in a Food Distribution Center. The primary responsibilities include staffing, planning, and achieving building goals for accurate and timely merchandise processing. The role involves monitoring plans, managing backlogs, ensuring adequate staffing and training, facilitating operational huddles, and participating in business plan development using trends and reporting tools to drive improvements in KPIs. It requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to motivate teams, and basic PC skills. This is a non-AI related role focused on logistics and operations within a retail supply chain. | — | 0 |
| Sr Engineering Manager - Target Application Platform Sr. Engineering Manager responsible for leading a team of engineers in building and managing Target's internal infrastructure and application management platform (TAP). This role involves driving product development, technical decision-making, team management, and ensuring the deployment and support of software applications across Target's retail environment. | — | 0 |
| Lead Engineer – Cryptography & Secrets Lead Engineer for Cryptography & Secrets at Target, responsible for designing, building, and evolving enterprise cryptography, PKI, and secrets management platforms. The role involves leading technical strategy, mentoring engineers, architecting core security services, and partnering with various teams to ensure secure cryptographic capabilities across the enterprise. Requires strong knowledge of cryptography, PKI, secrets management, and experience with Go/Java, Keyfactor/ADCS, and HSMs. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineer – Security Visibility Infrastructure Senior Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable log ingestion capabilities for cybersecurity at Target. This role focuses on improving end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps, including pipeline design, data validation, and integration with various security teams. Requires proficiency in Python, regular expressions, and experience with cloud environments and distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Engineer - ECHO This role is for a SIEM Engineer responsible for end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle). The engineer will work on onboarding sources, ensuring reliable delivery of data feeds, and building/enhancing ingestion integrations and operational tooling using Python and regular expressions. The role involves troubleshooting production issues, partnering with various security teams, and contributing to monitoring and alerting aligned to platform SLOs/SLAs. The engineer will gain experience with distributed systems fundamentals and resilience patterns, with a focus on improving telemetry quality and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Sr Engineer - Interactive Compute Senior Engineer on the Machine Learning Platform team responsible for developing new capabilities to support Data Scientists and other users at Target. This involves designing, implementing, and maintaining the Interactive Compute platform, developing applications to improve development experiences for Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts using JupyterLab and similar technologies, and collaborating with users to enhance notebook and Interactive Compute features. The role also includes developing, deploying, and maintaining production applications, building scalable and reliable compute capabilities, implementing monitoring and logging, and improving platform performance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Cybersecurity Analyst - SOX Controls This role is for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst focused on SOX IT General Controls. The primary responsibilities include providing subject-matter expertise in SOX IT risks and controls, conducting assessments and testing of IT controls, supporting new application onboarding, advising on control design and remediation, and reporting risks to leadership. The role requires experience in cybersecurity, SOX programs, and ITGC, with a focus on ensuring financial transaction systems are well-controlled and meet SOX requirements. | — | 0 |
| Bindery Specialist (Dayside) Operates finishing equipment (shrink wrapping, paper drilling, padding) and leads kitting/assembly projects for printed marketing, promotional, and training materials. Assists with large equipment operation. Requires ability to lift 50+ lbs and stand for long periods. | — | 0 |
| Sr Large Press Specialist Overnight (6color/64” Press Feeder) This role is for a Sr. Large Press Specialist Overnight at Target Printing Services. The primary responsibilities include assisting with the make-ready, run, and wash-up of a printing press, maintaining quality standards, adhering to safety procedures, and entering production data. The role also involves assisting with routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and providing training to other team members. A high school diploma and 2+ years of printing machine experience are required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Systems Engineer - Regional Distribution Center - Albany, OR Senior Systems Engineer role focused on ensuring high equipment availability and optimizing system performance in a regional distribution center. Responsibilities include preventive and predictive maintenance, troubleshooting equipment breakdowns, and supporting the operation of material handling equipment (MHE) such as conveyor systems, sortation, robotics, and AS/RS. The role involves monitoring and maintaining building systems, analyzing data to identify trends, and recommending improvements to building automation. Additionally, the engineer will conduct technical interviews, train technicians, and ensure safety procedures are followed. | — | 0 |
| Safety Manager - Food Distribution Center - Upper Marlboro, MD This role is a Safety Manager for a Food Distribution Center, focusing on executing the site safety program, conducting hazard assessments, managing regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, Fire), and developing strategic safety action plans. It requires industry expertise, leadership in safety operations, OSHA knowledge, problem-solving skills, and strong communication. | — | 0 |
| Sr Back End Engineer - Assortment Planning Tech Platform This role is for a Sr. Back End Engineer on the Assortment Planning Technology Platform team at Target. The platform supports core planning functions for merchandising, enabling merchants to deliver relevant guest assortments across sales channels. The role involves developing and gaining insight into application architecture, designing and implementing robust, scalable systems, and influencing engineering practices. Responsibilities include leading design and architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, debugging, and ensuring adherence to best practices. The role also involves managing product financials, leading lifecycle management, and contributing to disaster recovery planning. Experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Kotlin, REST APIs, React, and Microservices is required. | — | 0 |
| Sr Engineer - Stores & Supply Chain Senior Engineer for Stores & Supply Chain at Target, building applications and technology for retail and fulfillment networks. Focuses on scalable, reliable systems for checkout, fulfillment, and operations, supporting over 2,000 stores and 50+ warehouses. Leverages advanced data and predictive analytics, partnering with data scientists to use machine learning for operational improvements. Role involves application architecture, system design, implementation, and problem-solving. | — | 0 |
| Supply Chain Safety Manager - Returns Center - Upper Marlboro, MD Target is seeking a Supply Chain Safety Manager to own and execute the site safety program. This role involves data analysis, hazard assessments, ensuring risk and compliance obligations are met, developing safety action plans, managing regulatory visits (OSHA/EPA/Fire), and collaborating with various teams to mitigate risks and foster a strong safety culture. The ideal candidate will have industry expertise in safety management, strong problem-solving skills, and knowledge of OSHA standards. | — | 0 |
| Senior UX Content Designer, Agentic / AI | — | — |
| Lead Strategist, Enterprise Strategy Development | — | — |
| Lead Business Partner Operations - Return Center - Indianapolis, IN | — | — |
| Product Manager - Inventory Purchasing & Positioning | — | — |
| Production Controller - Regional Distribution Center - Fridley, MN | — | — |
| Lead Engineer, Penetration Tester | — | — |
| As Lead Consultant, Community and Stakeholder Engagement Data and Reporting | — | — |