Sr Engineer - Wireless Network Engineering

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $

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

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.

As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product.

You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

As a Senior Engineer on our Wireless Network team, you will help evolve Wi‑Fi connectivity across all our Stores, Distribution Centers, and Headquarters locations. The Wi‑Fi platform is the critical infrastructure that is essential to help Target deliver on its purpose “To help all families discover the joy of everyday life.” We connect our Target Guests and over 350,000 Team Members to our Target Tech delivered Services and Applications.

This team is building the network of the future at Target through adopting AI enhanced Wi‑Fi operating systems and further developing them to meet Target’s needs.

Be a key contributor to designing, building, and deploying Wi‑Fi connectivity  will partner with other engineers to ensure we build quality products. You will use your talents to help improve the efficiency of our Wi‑Fi connectivity through automation. You will help build tools to operate our fleet of access points.

• Reliability of the Services we provide making our Guests and Team Members their top priority
• Continuous learning – Embrace 50 days of learning
• Progress over perfection, build, learn, adapt mindset
• High observability with extensive metrics and logs
• Build secure products to protect our systems
• No Silos. We are a team and anyone can help on anything
• A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture

• Wireless Platforms: HPE/Juniper Mist, Cisco AireOS
• Software Development in Python
• Metrics visualization with tools like Grafana

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 2-5+ years of hands‑on wireless networking experience supporting Enterprise environments.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of 802.11 standards (a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
• Practical understanding of RF concepts including frequency planning, channel utilization, attenuation, SNR, and antenna selection
• Working knowledge of foundational network concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS
• Experience operating and supporting multi‑site Wireless network environments
• Ability to troubleshoot wireless performance issues using a combination of logs, metrics, packet captures, and RF analysis tools.
• Experience with at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Rust) to improve operational efficiency or automation.
• Experience utilizing version control and CI/CD technologies…