Sr Engineer - In-Store Digital Marketing

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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.