About us:
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As a Sr Engineer on the Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team you will design and deliver AI-powered capabilities that align with Target's engineering and security standards. A primary focus will be building automated capabilities for external attack-surface reconnaissance, management, and safe security validation. If you have a background in external attack-surface management, offensive security, network security testing, or security engineering—and a passion for AI—this is a great role for you. We will need you to provide subject matter expertise for the team, help refine capability requirements, and test competing approaches, while managing the risk of testing benefits against the risks of stability impacts.
Successful candidates will have hands on experience and a strong understanding of offensive-security principles, application security principles and secure software development practices. You will partner with security and engineering teams to design solutions that are secure by design while leveraging modern AI capabilities to improve analyst productivity and operational efficiency. You will apply your technical expertise to evaluate, prototype, and implement current and emerging AI technologies—including Agentic AI frameworks, agentic workflow automation, and tool orchestration.
You will work cross functionally across teams to provide thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. Participate in planning services and applications that have broad impact. You will be looked upon to provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate, and providing subject matter expertise in external attack-surface reconnaissance, network and service enumeration, security-tool automation, and safe vulnerability validation.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Cybersecurity or equivalent
practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in offensive security, network security testing, external attack-
surface management, security engineering, or related work.
• Hands-on experience in Offensive Security, with demonstrated expertise in external
asset discovery, DNS and network enumeration, service identification, technology
fingerprinting, vulnerability assessment, and safe, scope-controlled security testing.
• Experience building or integrating security tools using Python, Go, Bash, or a
comparable language.
• Interest in applying AI and Agentic AI capabilities to cybersecurity use cases, with a
demonstrated ability and willingness to rapidly learn and experiment with emerging
technologies..
• Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, iterative development, and close
collaboration with internal customers.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills and cross-functional
collaboration skills
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of experience in offensive security, network security testing, external attack-surface management, security engineering, or related work
- Hands-on offensive security experience, including external asset discovery, DNS and network enumeration, service identification, technology fingerprinting, vulnerability assessment, and scope-controlled security testing
- Experience building or integrating security tools using Python, Go, Bash, or a comparable language
- Interest in applying AI and Agentic AI capabilities to cybersecurity use cases, with willingness to learn and experiment with emerging technologies
- Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, iterative development, and collaboration with internal customers
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
