Walmart
Retail · Retail
- HQ
- Bentonville, US
- Founded
- 1969
- Size
- 2,330,000+
- Website
- walmart.com
Walmart has 320 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 61%, are focused on agents, with application roles making up another 18%. Engineering is the dominant function, with 301 positions. The company is primarily hiring in the United States, followed by India. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and RAG, suggesting a focus on developing and deploying AI agents.
Currently tracking 176 active AI roles, up 335% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $90k–$481k (avg $187k).
Retail · Retail
Walmart currently has 313 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior, Software Engineer (16), Staff, Software Engineer (16), (USA) Senior, Software Engineer (15), Senior, Data Scientist (13), Staff, Data Scientist (12). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Walmart's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (60%), application (20%), serving infrastructure (8%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Walmart is hiring AI talent in: United States (241 roles), India (41 roles), Canada (3 roles).
Job postings at Walmart most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, llm observability, rag, recommender systems.
In the past 30 days, Walmart has posted 86 new AI-related roles. That is a -55% change versus the prior 30 days (192 → 86).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| (USA) Senior, Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on applying data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics to optimize risk decision strategies for Walmart's e-commerce Marketplace program. The role involves developing models for fraud and performance risk detection, analyzing risk patterns, leading deep-dive analytics, integrating agentic AI frameworks, exploring GenAI applications, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires strong Python, SQL, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and familiarity with agentic AI systems. | AgentData | 7 |
| (USA) Staff, Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist role at Walmart focused on building scalable, end-to-end data science solutions for Walmart Marketplace. Responsibilities include owning the MLOps lifecycle, developing MLOps infrastructure, applying SRE principles to ML workloads, leading code quality, providing architectural guidance, building scalable training and inference pipelines, enhancing data feedback workflows, and deploying end-to-end models. Requires strong knowledge of ML, statistics, Python, big data platforms, Git, and SQL. |
| ServeData |
| 7 |
| (USA) Manager, Automation Engineering Manager, Automation Engineering (Individual Contributor) at Walmart's Innovation Lab, focused on developing and deploying advanced robotics systems across the supply chain. The role operates across the full robotics stack, including perception, modeling, system integration, and field deployment, with a focus on VLA models and edge AI/ML deployment. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer focused on building foundational agentic AI systems for Walmart's Site Reliability Engineering organization. The role involves architecting and developing high-availability, resilient platforms that autonomously monitor, predict, and resolve issues across Walmart's vast technology ecosystem, impacting millions of customers and associates. The goal is to transform traditional SRE practices into intelligent, self-healing systems. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Staff, Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist role at Walmart focused on building scalable end-to-end data science solutions for Walmart Marketplace. Responsibilities include owning the MLOps lifecycle, developing scalable MLOps infrastructure, applying SRE principles to ML workloads, leading code quality, providing architectural guidance, building training and inference pipelines, enhancing data feedback workflows, and deploying end-to-end models. Requires strong ML foundations, Python, big data platforms, and SQL. | ServeData | 7 |
| Senior, Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and implement production-grade Agentic AI and advanced machine learning solutions at enterprise scale. Responsibilities include owning the full data science lifecycle, building predictive/optimization/experimental solutions, developing data pipelines, communicating findings, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires proven experience building and deploying Agentic AI/ML models, strong Python/SQL skills, and experience with large datasets and production data pipelines. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering Senior Manager for Walmart's Sam's Club Merchandising team, responsible for leading the vision, execution, and scaling of next-generation item and assortment management capabilities. This role focuses on driving automation and AI-driven (including agentic AI) capabilities to modernize item setup, enrichment, and governance processes, architecting large-scale agentic workflows and multi-agent systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer - Backend / ML Staff Software Engineer focused on backend microservices, data pipelines, and ML-serving infrastructure for large-scale search at Walmart. This role involves technical leadership, architectural design, and hands-on development of high-throughput, low-latency systems, including ML model productionization and MLOps. | ServeData | 7 |
| Director, Data Science (Operation Research) Director of Data Science leading a team focused on pricing optimization, assortment, space design, and inventory flow for Walmart's global retail platforms. The role involves applying agentic AI and mathematical optimization to revolutionize retail operations, focusing on people leadership and operational optimization. | Ship | 7 |
| Director, Data Science- Forecasting Director of Data Science leading a team focused on ML initiatives for forecasting and generative AI within Walmart's global retail platforms. The role involves people leadership, operational optimization, and driving AI innovation in forecasting, with a focus on the end-to-end data science lifecycle and ethical AI practices. | DataAgent | 7 |
| (USA)Staff, Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist role focused on designing and deploying advanced forecasting models using statistical, ML, and deep learning methods. The role emphasizes explainability (XAI), graph-based modeling, and building agentic workflows for forecasting. Requires strong Python skills, experience with deep learning frameworks, and production-grade ML model delivery. | Post-trainAgent | 7 |
| Principal, Software Engineer - GenAi Principal Software Engineer to lead the integration of GenAI and LLMs into production e-commerce systems, focusing on customer-facing features and influencing architecture across teams. The role involves shipping AI-infused features, optimizing GenAI/LLM services at scale, and building internal AI best practices. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer - GenAi Staff Software Engineer to integrate GenAI and LLMs into production e-commerce systems, focusing on shipping AI-infused features at scale, building internal AI tooling, and defining technical strategy for GenAI-powered experiences. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science - Mobius Digital Twin, Delivery Speed Optimization Senior Manager, Data Science role focused on building and scaling AI-powered digital twin simulations for supply chain optimization. The role involves driving data science strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leveraging advanced analytics and AI insights to improve delivery speed and reduce costs. Key responsibilities include developing AI trace agents for fulfillment decision-making and productionizing advanced analytics models. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Principal, Data Scientist - Generalist Principal Data Scientist to lead AI explorations, research, and algorithmic solution creation for Sam's Club division. Focus on developing foundational ML/AI models for member experience across eCommerce, Scan & Go, and in-club shopping. Oversee end-to-end implementation of ML products in Search and Ads, guide a scrum team, and collaborate with Product Managers and Technologists to implement ML/AI solutions at scale. Integrate retail knowledge with ML algorithms to drive growth. Role involves leading a team focused on backend software infrastructure for AI/ML solutions, partnering with leaders on innovations in discovery experiences, and executing full project lifecycles including MLOps framework development for continuous deployment and personalization. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior, Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to develop and deliver scalable agentic software solutions using AI/ML. The role involves building and deploying software agents by chaining APIs, triggers, LLM functions, and data workflows on a low-code/no-code platform. Responsibilities include owning solutions end-to-end, improving agent performance through monitoring and optimization, and enabling business stakeholders in agent-driven automation. Requires expertise in Python/Java, LLMs, retrieval frameworks, agent development, Kubernetes/Cloud infra, and production services. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Staff, Data Scientist The role involves applying machine learning algorithms to enhance e-commerce search relevance and minimize risks. Responsibilities include building, validating, testing, and deploying predictive models using ML techniques, identifying and preparing data for modeling, and performing developments in NLP, computer vision, information retrieval, entity recognition, product classification, and recommendation systems. The goal is to understand customer preferences and enable better purchase decisions through ML-driven engagement and conversation. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of agentic AI systems for marketing workflow automation. This role involves architecting, building, and scaling intelligent agents to improve efficiency and personalization in marketing operations. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Information Security Senior Software Engineer focused on building secure, resilient services and AI-driven workflows for enterprise security automation and compliance validations. The role involves designing and building agents, MCP servers, secure APIs, and integrating with security tooling to reduce risk and boost engineering productivity. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Director, Software Engineering Senior Director of Engineering leading Code Puppy, a flagship AI builder platform within Walmart's AI & Data organization. The role focuses on defining and executing the engineering and platform strategy to enable associates to build AI-powered solutions quickly, safely, and cost-effectively at enterprise scale, with an emphasis on responsible AI and operational excellence. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Automation Engineering Senior Manager role focused on developing and delivering AI-powered performance reporting, strategic storytelling, and communication capabilities for Walmart's in-store fulfillment automation program. The role involves leveraging generative AI and building AI agents to translate complex automation data into executive-ready insights and decisions. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science, Perishable First Mile Senior Manager, Data Science role focused on transforming Walmart's omnichannel supply chain strategy using advanced analytics, AI, and optimization techniques. The role involves managing projects from start to finish, building scalable models, identifying opportunities for improvement, and leading pilot implementations. The team has a strong track record in supply chain innovation and has won prestigious awards. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Information Security Senior Software Engineer focused on building secure, resilient services and AI-driven workflows for enterprise security automation and compliance validations. The role involves designing and building agents, MCP servers, secure APIs, and integrating with security tooling to reduce risk and boost engineering productivity. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Data Science - Inventory Capabilities Senior Manager, Data Science role focused on optimizing inventory capabilities for Walmart. This involves designing, developing, and scaling algorithms for forecasting, placement, safety stock, and exits. The role applies advanced techniques in optimization, probabilistic forecasting, and machine learning to improve efficiency and resilience across a global network. It requires leading projects from problem framing to deployment and collaborating with various business and tech partners. The goal is to maximize customer value by ensuring the right items are in the right place, at the right time, in the right quantity, at the lowest cost. | ServeData | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer at Walmart focused on the International Recommendations platform, driving innovation in Machine Learning for personalization. Responsibilities include designing and productionizing scalable, low-latency ML services, building and optimizing models and data pipelines, creating monitoring dashboards, and performing latency tuning. The role involves collaborating with data scientists and product teams, and contributing to the ML capabilities roadmap. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| (USA) Principal, Data Scientist Principal ML Engineer to architect, build, and operate production-grade ML systems for Walmart's enterprise and e-commerce systems. Focus on intelligent automation, predictive scaling, anomaly detection, and capacity optimization, influencing runtime behavior at massive scale. Requires strong system design, end-to-end ownership, and experience with ML lifecycle management, serving infrastructure, and observability in distributed, high-availability environments. | ServeData | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science Senior Manager, Data Science to serve as the Technical Lead for a proactive Recommendation Agent initiative. The role involves architecting the system, setting engineering standards, leading code quality and reviews, designing ML monitoring frameworks, and driving Causal AI innovation. This is a Player-Coach role with hands-on development in Python and PySpark. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Staff, Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer focused on building GenAI and agentic platform capabilities, including RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, and model serving patterns. The role involves evaluating and maturing LLM, vector search, and agent frameworks into enterprise-ready components, standardizing AI interactions, and driving the AI-first platform strategy for Walmart Marketplace. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff, Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer role focused on architecting and building scalable, enterprise-grade solutions using Java, Spring Boot, React, and agentic technologies leveraging LLMs and MCPs. The role involves building and optimizing intelligent agents, ensuring they are observable, cost-effective, and deliver consistent quality through evaluation pipelines, while integrating with Walmart’s core tech platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Principal, Data Engineer Principal Data Engineer responsible for architecting and evolving the enterprise-scale data platform to power intelligent, autonomous systems, AI agents, and copilots. Focuses on defining data architecture, enabling agentic data, driving cross-domain strategy, and ensuring trust, reliability, and scale for AI-native workloads. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior, Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Walmart's FinTech organization, focusing on designing and building AI-driven data solutions and data pipelines. The role involves Big Data and AI engineering expertise, with a specific mention of LLM agent development and prompt engineering. | DataAgent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Data Engineering Senior Engineering Manager for Agentic Data at Sam's Club, responsible for evolving the data ecosystem into a Semantic & Contextual Layer for AI Agents. The role involves architecting a unified semantic layer, owning real-time streaming architectures for agentic intelligence, building agent-ready data pipelines, leading a team, and innovating retrieval systems for RAG at scale. Emphasis on data engineering fundamentals, real-time processing, and establishing operational excellence for autonomous AI workflows. | AgentData | 7 |
| Staff, Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer to develop AI-driven intelligent products for Associate Productivity and Experience. Responsibilities include designing, building, and deploying AI/ML models and agents, leading end-to-end system architecture for GenAI/AI/ML applications, and developing production-grade ML services. Requires strong experience in full-stack development, Python, ML frameworks, and cloud infrastructure. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal, Data Scientist Principal Data Scientist role at Walmart Global Tech focusing on applying advanced ML and statistical models to solve business problems in retail and finance. The role involves driving data-derived insights, building and training AI/ML models, communicating recommendations, and leading the adoption and deployment of ML products. Experience with various ML techniques, Gen-AI, cloud platforms (GCP/Azure), and big data technologies is required, with a focus on scaling and deploying solutions. | Ship | 7 |
| (USA) Senior Manager, Data Science Senior Manager, Data Science role at Walmart focused on architecting and implementing Agentic AI workflows for a probabilistic Media Mix Model (MMM) powered by Bayesian statistics. The role involves pioneering Bayesian MCMC MMM, developing multi-agent systems for measurement lifecycle automation, driving probabilistic forecasting, integrating causal insights, and scaling models to production. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal, Software Engineer This role is for a Principal Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining foundational technologies for Walmart's infrastructure and platforms, specifically within the Developer Experience and GenAI Platform team. The engineer will design, develop, and deploy advanced AI systems using Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic, and RAG frameworks, contributing to scalable developer productivity solutions. | Agent | 7 |
| (USA) Senior, Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on financial data for retail problems, utilizing Genai/LLM methods to build and deploy forecasting systems and agentic AI systems. The role involves collaborating with Finance teams, enhancing financial planning, and producing summaries. Requires experience in productionizing ML/Genai models, designing scalable applications, cloud platforms, CI/CD, testing frameworks, backend development, containerization, and monitoring. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior, Software Engineer – Python, Gen AI Developer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building scalable APIs and services for Walmart's Global Sourcing Backend team, specifically integrating and deploying Generative AI models (like GPT or Gemini) into applications. The role involves developing Python services, pre-processing text, implementing API endpoints, integrating safety modules, and potentially building user interfaces with React. Experience with cloud technologies (Azure, GCP), microservices, and API design is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff, Data Scientist Staff Data Scientist for Walmart's Personalization team, focusing on developing and implementing AI/ML algorithms for personalized recommendations and content generation (visual and textual) for their retail platform. The role involves designing, developing, and deploying scalable ML models using structured and unstructured data, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and staying updated on ML advancements. | Agent | 7 |