Lead AI Engineer

Target
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Job Description

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.

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We are the technologists and data scientists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities. Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches, and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe, and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation, and continuous learning. 

As Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you will join a Data Sciences team responsible for creating highly personalised offers for our Guests. You will play crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimising the machine learning solutions in production. We will also expect you to understand best-practice software design, participate in code reviews, create a maintainable and well-tested codebase with relevant documentation. At an organizational level, you will conduct training sessions, present work to technical and non-technical peers/leaders, build knowledge on business priorities/strategic goals and leverage this knowledge while building requirements and solutions for each business need.

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

Requirements:

  • 6 or more years of experience as software engineer or full stack data scientist.
  • Experience in developing and optimising the scalable machine learning systems.
  • Proven experience in designing, implementing, and deploying Machine learning models in production environment.
  • Work in partnership with data scientists, software engineers and product managers to understand the business requirements and translate them to machine learning solutions.
  • Strong experience in one of the general programming languages (Python or Java). Familiarity with Machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, Pytorch or keras is essential.
  • Excellent communication skills. Ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives
  • Self-driven and results oriented; able to meet tight timelines
  • Motivated, team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies.
  • Experience in mentoring the junior members of the team.

Preferred:

  • MS or PhD in a quantitative field
  • Experience with developing highly distributed ML systems

Company Info.

Target

Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Target established itself as the discount division of the Dayton's Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s (as part of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation), and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found suc

  • Industry
    Retail
  • No. of Employees
    368,000
  • Location
    Target Plaza 1000 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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