The pay range is $144,400.00 - $311,900.00

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.

JOIN US AS A PRINCIPAL ENGINEER – GEN AI SECURITY TEST ARCHITECT 

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. Learn more about Target here.  

 

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. 

 

Principal Engineers at Target are deeply technical and capable individual contributors who serve as subject matter experts and solve arbitrarily complex problems, sharing and implementing solutions across the enterprise. We leverage a high level of collaboration between teams as we drive improvement across all of Target Tech. In this new role, as a GenAI Security Test Architect you will design testing of GenAI solutions at Target. Target’s security focus is not limited to reputational harms like jailbreaking a language model to say something offensive, and this role will primarily focus on how Threat Actors could negatively impact confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information in a way that harms Target and/or our Guests. 

  

As a GenAI Security Test Architect you’ll work with technical and leadership teams across all of Target Tech. 

 

Expect to: 

• Throughout the role, more than merely identifying flaws or attending meetings for their own sake, you’ll prioritize driving implementable changes that improve the business. 

• Design test approaches to GenAI products in order to identify security flaws (particularly flaws that impact confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information, and/or that could facilitate an intrusion or breach), and execute test suites. 

• Conduct full-stack architecture review of software for GenAI products and platforms. 

• Be a subject matter expert on information security for GenAI systems and applications in cloud/vendor and on-prem environments. 

• Proficiently discuss AI/ML with our data science and ML teams as we identify and develop solutions for security issues. 

• Design security reference architectures and implementing/configuring security controls with an emphasis on GenAI technologies. 

• Efficiently assess and communicate risk accurately while negotiating priorities with cross-domain stakeholders. 

• Collaborate with engineering teams to perform advanced security analysis on complex GenAI systems, identifying gaps while contributing to design solutions and security requirements. 

 

 

About You: 

• 4-year degree OR equivalent work experience 

• Polyglot programmer comfortable in many languages across different platforms 

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity 

• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn  

• Proficiency with AI/ML concepts and technologies. 

• Demonstrated ability (expertise preferred) in attacking GenAI products and platforms. 

• Seeks out cross-team collaboration opportunities. 

• Stays current on relevant AI and Cyber Engineering technologies with self-directed learning. 

• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities. 

• Good understanding of security management workflows in large enterprise organizations and complex environments. 

• Has a good understanding of the current threat landscape and the challenges that most organizations are facing. 

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location 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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.Application deadline is : 11/24/2024