About the Role
As a Senior AI Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will design, build, and scale AI infrastructure and tooling that empowers data scientists, engineers, and product teams across Shipt to bring AI-first products and features to customers. This role shapes the foundations of our AI capabilities and accelerates innovation.
Responsibilities
- Develop internal tooling and libraries using AI tools and frameworks.
- Create integrations with LLM gateways, agent frameworks, and structured output systems.
- Improve AI-powered applications.
- Contribute to the design of scalable infrastructure for large-scale data processing and model serving.
- Partner closely with engineers and data scientists.
- Collaborate with product and operations teams to deliver AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python, with experience across modern AI/ML ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience building with AI development tools such as MCP servers/clients, PydanticAI, LangGraph, LiteLLM, or similar AI platforms or tools.
- Background in developing infrastructure and tooling that supports engineering and data science teams.
- Experience with observability and monitoring systems for ML (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases, or similar).
- Solid understanding of the data science workflow, from data ingestion and feature engineering to experimentation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized development (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Have an AI first mindset and passion, with curiosity to learn and leverage AI in all aspects of your work.
- Strong collaboration skills and a passion for building platforms that enable others to do their best work.
Skills
- AI Platforms
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Platform Engineering
Location
- Birmingham, AL
- Minneapolis, MN
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $134,000 - $180,000
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Company 401k plan.
- Discretionary vacation for exempt team members.
- Paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Eligibility for an annual bonus.
- Potential for restricted stock units.
About the Company
- Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch.
- Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.
- Shipt aims to put its team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits, and commit to giving back to communities.
- Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation.
- Shipt is available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities.
- Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
