Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
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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.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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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.
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What Target Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles46 certified filings for “Lead Engineer” (Software Developers) in MN: $135k–$145k, median $145k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- 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)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-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 roles
- 46 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).
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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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 .
Job title: Lead Engineer – Operational Technology Security
Minneapolis-based/hybrid
JOIN US AS A LEAD ENGINEER - Operational Technology Security
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. Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation and right now, we are up to big things! Target's security team is a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too – that's why we work here. Join our team to improve Target's security and move the business forward.
As a Lead Engineer on the Operational Technology (OT) Security team, you'll operate, integrate, automate, and scale OT security across Target's global supply chain and retail sites. You'll own the engineering and day-to-day operation of Target's OT security platform that covers asset inventory, secure configuration, vulnerability management, event visibility/detection, and many more security use cases. You’ll develop automation to distribute the right findings to the right operational teams so they can resolve security issues safely and in priority order. You'll work across various security and engineering teams so security controls land safely in environments where availability, safety, and keeping product moving matter.
You have a builder's mindset, a strong bias for action, and the technical depth to turn standard OT Security control requirements into engineering patterns that teams can implement and that operators want to use.
Expect to:
• Own the engineering, configuration, and day-to-day operation of the OT Security platform, including availability, performance, upgrades, licensing, access management, and continuous improvement.
• Expand and maintain sensor and collector coverage and health across OT environments, working with site and network teams on configuration and site installation.
• Build OT asset discovery, reconciliation, classification, and enrichment. Set minimum inventory-data expectations and work across teams to improve attribution, function, location, criticality, lifecycle, and support metadata.
• Monitor and improve platform data quality. Find and fix coverage and inventory gaps so OT asset, vulnerability, traffic-flow, and secure-configuration data can be trusted by consumers.
• Take in, normalize, correlate, and enrich findings and other OT exposure data, then prioritize risk based on operational consequence, asset criticality, exploitability, exposure, compensating controls, vendor support, maintenance windows, and remediation feasibility.
• Own secure configuration for OT. Use secure configuration data and other evidence to find security-relevant de
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