Engineer – Trend Brain Team (Backend/GenAI)

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The Trend Brain team builds intelligence gathering and research automation tools to enrich and accelerate the design process at Target.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.  As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Integrate new sources of trend signal into our automated multi-agent trend-sensing ecosystem.
• Implement, deploy, scale and maintain agentic workflows in partnership with data scientists.
• Provide a combination of traditional and agentic capabilities to Target’s merchants, trend researchers and designers to help keep Target make timely, informed decisions about what consumers want.
• Ensure that our rapidly growing trend research ecosystem produces consistent, actionable, transparent results.
• Help our team stay abreast of a rapidly evolving GenAI ecosystem.
   

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

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
  • GenAI plays a central role in this product. Successful candidates will demonstrate both experience with and sustained interest in the evolving GenAI ecosystem.
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects.
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language. Preferably Python and emerging GenAI Python frameworks.
• Demonstrates knowledge of different persistence and indexing strategies to support efficient, reliable data retrieval.
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Demonstrates strong computer science fundamental.

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