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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 a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. Manage total product, financials and forecasting. Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met. Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

TM will play a pivotal role in advancing our capabilities in extracting meaningful information from images through state-of-the-art machine learning and generative AI techniques. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop, implement, and optimize algorithms and models that enable accurate and efficient conversion of visual data into actionable insights
Proven experience (5+ years) in developing and deploying machine learning models and algorithms, with a focus on computer vision and natural language processing.
Deep understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and transformers, as applied to image and text processing tasks.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
Experience with image processing libraries and frameworks (e.g., OpenCV) and text processing techniques (e.g., tokenization, word embeddings).
Proficiency in working with multimodal generative AI systems is crucial. Demonstrated experience in developing and utilizing models capable of processing and generating outputs across multiple modalities, such as text, images, and audio, is highly desirable.