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Lead Full Stack Engineer - AI Platform Team
Target Corporation · 🇺🇸 7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 107 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Target Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles46 certified filings for “Lead Engineer” (Software Developers) in MN: $135k–$145k, median $145k. Most were filed at wage level IV (83%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Target Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 107 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . JOIN TARGET AS A LEAD FULL STACK ENGINEER – AI DATA PLATFORM TEAM 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 . About the role As a Lead Engineer on the AI/ML and Agent Platform team, you will provide technical leadership and design and build enterprise-grade full-stack capabilities for agent development, orchestration, evaluation, observability, sandboxing, and production execution. You will work at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, GenAI, and modern application development to create scalable and intuitive agentic experiences. Key Responsibilities: · Lead the architecture and development of scalable full-stack solutions for agent orchestration, execution, evaluation, and monitoring · Build reusable capabilities for agent lifecycle management, context and memory, tool integration, model and prompt configuration, secure sandbox execution, and workflow orchestration · Develop intuitive experiences for building, testing, orchestrating, and managing AI agents and workflows · Integrate LLMs, AI agents, enterprise tools, and external systems into reliable production-grade solutions with appropriate guardrails · Build APIs, SDKs, platform services, and developer tools that enable teams to create, test, deploy, and operate intelligent agents · Develop evaluation and observability capabilities including testing, quality metrics, tracing, monitoring, dashboards, and debugging · Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, governance, privacy, reliability, and auditability · Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Architecture, and engineering teams to define and deliver platform capabilities · Drive scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost efficiency across cloud-native systems · Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards for AI/ML and agentic systems Core responsibilities of this job are articulated within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. About you: • 4-year degree or equivalent experience • 7+ years of full stack software engineering experience including technical leadership of complex systems and initiatives • Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python • Strong experience building end-to-end applications across backend services/APIs and modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript • Experience building production AI/ML or GenAI applications using LLMs, agents, or agentic workflows • Strong experience designing scalable distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures • Deep understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, security, and observability • Experience with containe