Lead Engineer Cyber AI - Cybersecurity

As Lead Engineer on Target's Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team, you will architect and deliver AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions, shepherd proofs of concept, and provide cross-functional technical leadership. This hybrid role is based in Brooklyn Park, MN, with a salary range of USD 132,000 to 238,000 per year.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical lead for engineering initiatives within the Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering group.
• Design, own, and ensure that solutions and proofs of concept meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Deliver outcomes with a customer-centric focus.
• Architect complete solutions independently when appropriate, while extending impact by guiding broader teams as a force multiplier.
• Collaborate closely with cybersecurity teams to understand current applications, architectures, and operational workflows.
• Contribute to new AI powered capabilities aligned with Target standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and participate in decision making, offering guidance on viability within Target's environment, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
• Initiate and conduct research and proofs of concept for new technologies.
• Collaborate across teams to promote reuse and establish scalable, consistent design patterns through thought leadership.
• Engage in planning activities with broad organizational impact.
• Contribute to foundational capabilities that enable AI or machine learning activities.
• Lead and participate in complex development, automation, and deployment efforts, ensuring implementations meet architectural and operational requirements.
• Interface with cyber teams on their projects, contributing to requirements, workflows, and designs.
• Assess project progress against objectives for rapidly developed proofs of concept that address peer-team challenges.
• Provide patterns, templates, guidance, and influence data standards, policies, and procedures.

Requirements

• Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, development, and iterative delivery with close coordination with internal customers.
• Proficiency in Python with demonstrated delivery of production-grade software solutions.
• Experience and enthusiasm for AI and ML solutions.
• Experience in workflow and process automation.
• Experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, application security, or penetration testing.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of software development experience, including at least one full cycle implementation.
• Strong domain knowledge of Target’s technology capabilities and awareness of competitor products and differentiators.
• Broad and deep expertise across multiple programming languages and frameworks; designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality for a product line, platform, or infrastructure.
• Effective communication and coordination with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Expertise in analyzing and optimizing system capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Understanding of and ability to develop solutions for data lifecycle management.
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise.
• Keeps up to date with evolving technologies through formal training and self-directed learning.
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems.

Technologies

• Python

Benefits

• Health benefits (medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more)
• 401(k) plan
• Employee discount
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

About You

You have a demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, development, and iterative delivery with close coordination with internal customers.