Engineer - Generative AI Platform

About us:

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.

We are building Generative AI Platform to enable ML and AI OPs capabilities to help Data scientists and engineers at Target to implement Generative AI solutions at scale. It encompasses building the RAG, model garden, experimentation, iteration, monitoring, explainability. You will be part of a team building scalable applications by leverage latest technologies. Connect with us if you want to join us in this exiting journey

As a Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

You will build applications for Target’s GenAI Platform to enable capabilities to help data scientists, ML engineers and Data engineers at Target . You will be part of a team building highly scalable, event driven applications and leverage technologies. You understand Target's business and technical environments, resolve complex challenges via technical solutions as well as be a significant code contributor, manage software development cycle, drive best practices and ensure development of high-quality code with compliance & security standards. The Engineer is a practitioner of rapid prototyping and Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, test-driven development and stays current with new technology to be able to assess viability and applicability to Target's business and technical environments. 

Technical skills:  Python, Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, API development, Micro services, Postgres, NoSQL, Kafka, Docker, CICD or similar tech stack to build the platform

About you:

• 1.5 + years of software development experience

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• Experience engineering applications using Python

• Experience engineering applications for the JVM. Java experience is preferred.

• Excellent communication skills with both business partners and other engineering teams

• Familiar with Agile principles and possess a team attitude

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills

• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements

• Experience in micro services, Spring Boot, and event driven architecture

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines

• Exposure to building high-performance scalable APIs is a plus.

• Knowledge of NoSQL technologies Cassandra, Elastic search, MongoDB is a plus

• Good at writing unit and functional tests and test-driven development