Position Summary...
As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Safety team within Information Security, you will design solutions for Walmart to evaluate, monitor, and govern AI systems responsibly. This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering and AI governance — you will build the observability platforms, evaluation pipelines, and safety tooling making it possible to detect harmful, biased, or non-compliant AI behavior before and after deployment.
You'll bring demonstrated engineering depth and the judgment to translate safety and governance requirements into production-grade systems. You are equally comfortable writing infrastructure-as-code, defining evaluation criteria, and contributing to the policy standards your tooling enforces.
About the team:
The AI Safety team at Walmart ensures that artificial intelligence solutions deployed globally are trustworthy, fair, and under meaningful human oversight. This team establishes responsible AI standards at scale by developing technical and organizational safety controls that enable accountability. As AI technologies become more advanced and integrated into critical decisions affecting millions, the team safeguards safety across this evolving landscape. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, the team applies expertise in software architecture, scalability, and cloud security to maintain robust, secure, and reliable AI systems that protect customers, associates, and partners worldwide.
What you'll do...
- Design and build AI evaluation infrastructure — develop pipelines and tooling that assess AI application for safety-relevant properties including output reliability, harmful content generation, fairness characteristics, and behavioral consistency.
- Develop AI safety tooling and automation — create automated evaluation workflow enabling safety checks for AI development
- Contribute to AI safety standards and policy — translate safety requirements from frameworks including NIST AI RMF and OWASP
- Write clear technical documentation — produce implementation guides that enable engineering teams to build safety-aware AI systems consistently.
- Collaborate across teams — work with AI/ML engineers, product teams, Legal, Compliance to ensure safety requirements are understood and implemented effectively.
What you'll bring:
- **AI Safety & Governance Frameworks - **Working familiarity with NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and OWASP LLM Top 10.
- **Secure Engineering Practices - **Understanding of secure software development principles and ability to integrate security and safety requirements into system design from the outset.
- **Observability & Monitoring Engineering - **Hands-on experience building production observability systems. Familiarity with logging, metrics, alerting, and anomaly detection patterns applicable to AI/ML system outputs.
- **Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering - **Operational experience with Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- AI Safety & Evaluation FundamentalsUnderstanding of AI failure modes relevant to responsible deployment
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart. The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
__Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. __
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 4years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC, Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity or related area and 2 years’ experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.