Staff Data Scientists, Conversational AI in Bellevue, Washington

Staff Data Scientist

Bellevue, WA: $132,000 - $264,000/yr Sunnyvale, CA: $143,000 - $286,000/yr Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary:

As part of the Emerging Tech team, you'll help move AI from reactive to proactive by building systems that operate in the real world. As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll take full ownership of conversational, agentic, and generative AI systems from modeling to production, powering intelligent agents at Walmart's scale.

About Emerging Tech:
Our Emerging Tech team drives Walmart's AI transformation by building intelligent systems that influence how millions shop every day across our global retail ecosystem. We develop state-of-the-art generative and conversational AI that powers more proactive, connected, and personalized experiences. At this scale, every innovation you create not only reaches millions of customers worldwide but also comes to life in the very communities where you live, work, and shop.

As a Staff Data Scientist you will:

• Lead projects end-to-end, from defining the problem to launching production ready solutions.
• Design, fine tune, evaluate, and deploy machine learning and LLM based systems that perform reliably at Walmart scale.
• Take ownership of how systems behave in the real world, including latency, scale, and reliability.
• Influence teams across Emerging Tech through strong technical judgment and partnership, not authority.
• Work confidently in fast moving, ambiguous spaces where quick learning and iteration matter.

Experience we are looking for:

• 4
  -9+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied AI.
• Hands on experience building, fine tuning, evaluating, and deploying ML or LLM driven systems.
• Strength in one of the following areas:
• NLP, conversational AI, or agentic workflows
• Deep learning and multimodal generative modeling (text, image, video, or 3D)
• Experience running scalable, production grade systems that support real customers.
• Familiarity with MLOps practices, distributed training, or inference optimization (especially for deep learning specialists).
• Ability to balance cutting edge research with real world operational needs.
• A track record of influencing engineers, product partners, and designers through clear technical insight.

About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.