Target is hiring a Senior Engineer for an internal Forward Deployed Engineering team on its AI platforms
Retailer Target posted a Sr Engineer – AI Platforms – Forward Deployed Engineering role (remote-eligible, $98K–$176K) that embeds with Target’s own product teams to productionize generative AI and feed patterns back into the enterprise AI platform.
Target’s careers site lists a Senior Engineer role on an internal Forward Deployed Engineering team for its AI platforms. Unlike vendor FDEs who sit inside other companies’ environments, this job embeds with Target’s own engineering and product teams to move AI work from experimentation into production on Target’s enterprise AI platform.
The posting emphasizes production-grade generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, retrieval and platform services, plus a flywheel back into the platform: identify recurring challenges across engagements and turn successful patterns into reusable APIs, SDKs, frameworks, templates and self-service tooling. Pay is listed at $98,000–$176,000, with hybrid or remote-eligible arrangements depending on Target’s needs, and a Minnesota HQ affiliation for hybrid work.
For FDEs, the interesting angle is the buyer side of the market: large enterprises are copying the forward-deployed model inside their own walls to drive platform adoption, not only buying FDE capacity from AI labs and startups.
Source: corporate.target.com