Sr AI Engineer- Item Science

Overview

Target is hiring a Senior AI Engineer for Item Science to design and implement AI/ML algorithmic solutions. You’ll work with Data Sciences and product teams to build, validate, test, and deploy models in production.

What you'll do

• Own design and implementation of algorithmic solutions such as recommendation or forecasting.
• Define problem statements and translate business considerations into model validation metrics.
• Drive feasibility studies including data requirements and potential solution approaches.
• Develop and validate models, including data understanding, feature engineering, model development, validation, testing, and deployment.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between simple and complex models/solutions for business problems.
• Build and maintain a nuanced understanding of business-generated data and its limitations.
• Write and maintain production code using approved programming languages and follow CI/CD and unit testing practices.
• Mentor junior team members and present technical work to business and other data science teams.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in software design, development, and algorithmic solutions.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.
• Hands-on experience building distributed and large-scale systems.
• Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and big-data processing for ad-tech applications.
• Proven ability to design and deploy scalable ML pipelines, backend APIs, and data-driven systems.
• Experience analyzing and optimizing system capacity, performance, and operational health.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.