Lead Engineer

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about Target in India
At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

A role with Target Data Science & Engineering means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics, Optimization or Machine Learning teams, you’ll be challenged to harness Target’s impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in in Marketing, Supply Chain Optimization, Network Security and Personalization rely on

About the Team

The team is responsible for Demand Forecasting Engine Feature Management and Model Evaluation. You will play crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing the machine learning solutions in production. Additionally, you’ll apply best practices in software design, participate in code reviews, create a maintainable well-tested codebase with relevant documentation. At an organizational level, you will conduct training sessions, present work to technical and non-technical peers/leaders, build knowledge on business priorities/strategic goals and leverage this knowledge while building requirements and solutions for each business need. Core responsibilities of this job are articulated within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs 

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

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
 

About you: 

• 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience 

• MS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent work or industry experience 

• 6 plus years of experience in end-to-end application development, data exploration, data pipelining, API design, optimization of model latency 

• 2 plus years of experience deploying Machine Learning algorithms into production environments - including model and system monitoring and troubleshooting 

• Highly proficient programming in Java/ Scala and/ or Python 

• Good understanding of Big Data tech - specifically Hadoop, Kafka, Spark 

• Solid understanding of data analysis techniques, including data cleaning, preprocessing, and visualization

• Demonstrated ability collaborating with data scientists, software engineers and product managers to understand the business requirements and translate to machine learning solutions at scale 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives 

• Self-driven and results oriented - able to meet tight timelines 

• Motivated, team player with ability to collaborate effectively across global team 

Bonus Points: 

• Extensive experience with Deep Learning frameworks TensorFlow, Pytorch or Keras 

• PhD in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or related quantitative field 

• Extensive experience developing highly distributed ML systems at scale 

• Familiarity with Vertex AI and Cloud ML ecosystem will be desirable 

• Experience in mentoring the junior team members ML skillset and career development 

Why work with us at Target? 

• You will work directly on the Data Science problems that have the most impact on Target's entire supply chain, forecasting and merchandising teams. 

• We love open source! Many of our team members contribute to open-source communities and get to do it during work time. We try to contribute back to our communities where we can and are grateful to be able to open source some of our own projects! 

Useful Links-

Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion