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Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
As an engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you… Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About the Role VisionML builds AI-powered computer vision solutions using Target’s in-store camera network to improve guest experience and store operations. We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer (L4) with strong fundamentals in Python and Java, who is eager to grow into an AI/ML-focused role.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable full-stack applications supporting AI/ML workflows
- Develop backend services using Python and Java
- Integrate AI/ML models into production systems
- Design APIs, data pipelines, and basic UI components
- Ensure code quality, testing, and system reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions
Required Skills
- Strong coding skills in Python and Java
- Understanding of backend systems, APIs, and databases
- Basic knowledge of full-stack development
- Interest in AI/ML or computer vision
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Preferred
- Exposure to **ML frameworks **
- Experience with distribute systems and knowledge of cloud platforms
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, or microservices
Why Join
- Work on real-world AI systems at enterprise scale
- Opportunity to grow into a full-stack AI engineer
- High-impact role within Target’s VisionML platform