About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to build reusable platform capabilities for PIQ, focusing on context building, graph-based retrieval, agent harnesses, and statistical modeling. The role combines software engineering with the development of frameworks that support intelligent applications and AI agents.
Key Responsibilities
- Harness Building & Scaffolding: Develop reusable agent harnesses, frameworks, and project scaffolding for tool integration, workflow execution, testing, and evaluation.
- Context Building: Build capabilities to gather, structure, enrich, and manage context from diverse data sources for applications and AI agents.
- Graph Creation & Graph RAG: Develop graph models and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation workflows to connect information and retrieve relevant context.
- Statistical Modeling & Simulation: Develop and validate models that represent variability, estimate outcomes, and support scenario simulation.
- Platform Engineering: Design scalable APIs and services, own technical delivery, and maintain engineering quality through testing, documentation, and mentoring.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with proficiency in Python, Java, or a similar programming language.
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, data modeling, SQL, and API development.
- Experience building production-grade services and reusable frameworks, with working knowledge of statistics and modeling.
Preferred Experience
Exposure to AI agent frameworks, context engineering, knowledge graphs, RAG or Graph RAG, and simulation. Familiarity with cloud platforms and enterprise data systems is a plus
Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency in Python, Java, or a similar programming language
- Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms
- Experience with data modeling and SQL
- Experience with API development
- Experience building production-grade services and reusable frameworks
- Working knowledge of statistics and modeling
- Exposure to AI agent frameworks, context engineering, knowledge graphs, RAG, Graph RAG, or simulation
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and enterprise data systems
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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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.
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