Senior Engineer - Target India

Target is hiring a Senior Engineer - Target India in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI applications and platform capabilities using LLMs.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for enterprise knowledge retrieval.
• Build and integrate AI agents using modern agent frameworks and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Develop scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build distributed systems that are reliable, observable, and fault tolerant.
• Design APIs and platform services used across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Participate in production support, incident analysis, and platform hardening.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, Platform, and Data Engineering teams.

Requirements

Experience

• 4 - 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience as a senior individual contributor designing and delivering production software.
• Demonstrated experience building and shipping at least two AI-powered applications or platform capabilities into production.
• Strong experience developing scalable backend systems using Java.
• Experience building cloud-native distributed systems.

Required Technical Skills AI Engineering We're looking for engineers who have practical, production experience - not just experimentation - with modern AI technologies. Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Experience integrating LLMs into production applications.
• Strong prompt engineering skills.
• Experience with structured prompting, tool calling, and function calling.
• Experience evaluating and improving LLM quality.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Designing and implementing RAG pipelines.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge Graphs
• Neo4j
• Vector databases
• AI Evaluation frameworks
• Prompt management
• Multi-agent systems
• Kubernetes
• GCP
• ServiceNow integrations
• GitHub APIs
• Slack APIs

What Success Looks Like First 90 Days

• Understand the Roundel Synapse architecture.
• Deliver production-quality features independently.
• Contribute to platform design discussions.

Benefits & perks

You'll have the opportunity to build one of Roundel's flagship AI platforms while working on cutting-edge technologies including LLMs, RAG, AI agents, observability, and distributed systems. The work you do will directly improve engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.

About Target

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is