Sr Engineer

About us:

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As a Sr Engineer on the Cybersecurity AI Activation and Engineering team you will design anddeliver AI-powered capabilities that align with Target's engineering and security standards.Aprimary focus will be building automated capabilities for external attack-surfacereconnaissance, management, and safe security validation. If you have a background inexternal attack-surface management, offensive security, network security testing, orsecurity engineering—and a passion for AI—this is a great role for you.We will need you toprovide subject matter expertise for the team, help refine capability requirements, and testcompeting approaches, while managing the risk of testing benefits against the risks ofstability impacts.
Successful candidates will have hands on experience and a strong understanding ofoffensive-security principles, application security principles and secure softwaredevelopment practices. You will partner with security and engineering teams to designsolutions that are secure by design while leveraging modern AI capabilities to improveanalyst productivity and operational efficiency. You will apply your technical expertise toevaluate, prototype, and implement current and emerging AI technologies—includingAgentic AI frameworks, agentic workflow automation, and tool orchestration.
 

You will work cross functionally across teams to provide thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. Participate in planning services andapplications that have broad impact. You will be looked upon to provide suggestions forhandling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues whenappropriate, and providing subject matter expertise inexternal attack-surfacereconnaissance, network and service enumeration, security-tool automation, and safevulnerability validation.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties maychange at any time due to business needs.
 

About you:
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Cybersecurity or equivalent
practical experience.
•3+ years of experience in offensive security, network security testing, external attack-
surface management, security engineering, or related work.
•Hands-on experience in Offensive Security, with demonstrated expertise in external
asset discovery, DNS and network enumeration, service identification, technology
fingerprinting, vulnerability assessment, and safe, scope-controlled security testing.
•Experience building or integrating security tools using Python, Go, Bash, or a
comparable language.
•Interest in applying AI and Agentic AI capabilities to cybersecurity use cases, with a
demonstrated ability and willingness to rapidly learn and experiment with emerging
technologies..
•Demonstrated history of rapid prototyping, iterative development, and close
collaboration with internal customers.
•Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills and cross-functional
collaboration skills