Sr Engineer - In-Store Digital Marketing

The In-Store Digital Marketing team at Target is responsible for the platform that manages, delivers, and displays Target-branded digital content in a variety of digital experiences at both HQ and stores.

In your role as a Sr. Engineer on the In-Store Digital Marketing team, you will be contributing to building a scalable in-store digital signage solution that enhance the guest experience, elevate brand storytelling, and drive measurable business outcomes. Prospective candidates will have experience in software development with an eagerness to learn while embracing the Growth Mindset. Share experiences in an Agile environment, manage software-defined infrastructure, gather story details, and collaborate with partner teams to develop and implement solutions in an iterative manner.

We urge Target engineers to participate in learning opportunities such as Hack-a-thons, Engineering events, innovation sprints, and quarterly Demo Days. As an engineer on the In-Store Digital Marketing team, you will contribute and affect change using a diverse cross-section of the following technologies and skillsets:

• Design, deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Ubuntu/Linux-based systems supporting in-store digital marketing, AV, display, and field technology environments.
• Provide advanced Ubuntu/Linux engineering support, including OS configuration, drivers, services, networking, device management, application deployment, logging, and root-cause troubleshooting.
• Work comfortably in Linux environments to manage services, permissions, processes, networking, logs, packages, storage, and application configuration.
• Understand and troubleshoot complete audio/video signal flow, tracing a source through media players, PCs, switchers, extenders, distribution equipment, cabling, converters, and displays to isolate failures.
• Engineer and support video and display technologies, including commercial LCD/LED displays, video walls, direct-view LED, digital signage players, controllers, and related processing hardware.
• Maintain strong working knowledge of HDMI, DisplayPort, HDBaseT, USB-C, EDID, HDCP, resolution, refresh rate, color space, scaling, and signal-conversion technologies.
• Diagnose complex display issues such as no signal, intermittent video, resolution mismatches, EDID/HDCP failures, image scaling problems, synchronization issues, cable-distance limitations, and hardware compatibility problems.
• Integrate AV systems with IP networks, including troubleshooting addressing, VLANs, DHCP/DNS, routing, multicast/unicast traffic, remote management, and network-connected media or display devices.
• Provide field engineering support for new installations, pilots, upgrades, and break/fix efforts, including system commissioning, validation, documentation, standards development, and escalation support for technicians and deployment teams.
• Serve as a technical subject-matter expert who can move between software, operating systems, networking, AV hardware, cabling, and physical display systems, identify the actual failure domain, and drive issues through resolution with vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.

As a member of an Agile team, a successful candidate will possess the following traits:

• A motivated, positive, and driven
• Adaptable to change
• Actively collaborates in an Agile product driven environment
• Helping to resolve hardware, operational, infrastructure, and application incidents escalated from support teams during on-call rotations
• Drive problem root cause analysis through the operating system and application log investigation
• Develop automated preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and quickly resolve problems to ensure infrastructure and application stability

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience (Linux/Ubuntu + Python)
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities, and key competitors' products and differentiating features
• Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions
• Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
• Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms within own domain
• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
• Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests
• Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
• Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.