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Sr Engineer - AI Platforms - Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
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 $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 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 SR ENGINEER – AI PLATFORMS – FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING 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 . As a Senior Engineer – AI Platforms, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), you will be part of a team focused on accelerating the adoption of Target's enterprise AI platforms by working directly with engineering and product teams to solve complex, high-value AI problems. You will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, platform engineering, and product development, bringing deep technical expertise directly to teams building AI-powered experiences. You will help teams move from experimentation to production by designing and implementing solutions, integrating enterprise AI platform capabilities, and establishing scalable engineering patterns. A key part of this role is learning from real-world implementations and using those insights to improve the broader AI platform and builder experience. You will identify recurring technical challenges and work with platform teams to turn successful implementation patterns into reusable components, APIs, SDKs, frameworks, tooling, reference implementations, and self-service capabilities. As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight into application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You demonstrate expertise in applying appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement architecture independently while influencing fellow engineers through software designs, implementation guidance, code reviews, and technical mentorship. Use your skills, experience, and talents to be part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer within Forward Deployed Engineering, you’ll take the lead as you: • Partner directly with engineering and product teams to design, build, and productionize AI-powered applications and experiences using Target's enterprise AI platform. • Develop production-grade solutions using generative AI, LLMs, agentic architectures, enterprise context and retrieval, model APIs, tools, and platform services. • Rapidly understand ambiguous business and engineering problems, translate them into technical designs, and build working solutions that demonstrate measurable value. • Lead technical implementation across the lifecycle—from exploration and prototyping through architecture, development, evaluation, deployment, observability, and production operations. • Apply strong software engineering and distributed systems princi