Application Security Engineer

Position: (USA) Staff, Application Security Engineer
Position Summary...

We are expanding our team and looking for technologists with experience in Application Security, Machine Learning, practitioners of developing code languages and passion for Artificial Intelligence. This role is geared for an individual contributor that can lead within, someone who enjoys the challenges of building enterprise capabilities, establishing strategy and best practices geared for AI assisted development, ready to assess risks and develop comparison metrics of AI generated contributions.

This role will be filled with someone that likes a challenge, ability to research and apply solutions, with a passion for growing the business securely preserving confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

What you'll do...

At Walmart, we prioritize innovation and data security. Our team is dedicated to maintaining a secure operating environment and preserving the trust of our customers, associates, and stakeholders. We support our growing business through ensuring our deployed solutions are secure from insecure coding practices and vulnerabilities to protect the business against threat actors. We combine a range of services and expertise to prevent fraud, detect threats, and manage digital risk and access.

Our focus is on reducing risk, enabling the business to move securely with speed, and fostering a culture of security and reliability within our team.

* Become part of an elite Security Team solving evolving security exploits and technology trends.

* Develop Application Security strategy for AI‑assisted development across SDLC and CI/CD.

* Establish architecture patterns for safe use of AI coding assistants (IDE, CLI, PR bots) including data‑handling and model interaction boundaries.

* Champion AI security controls that are developer‑first, fast, and low‑friction, while ensuring enterprise policy adherence. Quantify defect rates and risk between human vs. AI‑generated changes.

* Author secure coding standards for AI‑generated code and drive adoption, measuring enforcement and telemetry.

* Assess risks of AI code contributions and codify automated checks.

* Orchestrate security tools and connect findings to AI remediation workflows.

* Pre‑train and fine‑tune enterprise AI coding agents on secure patterns, org policies, and vetted libraries to minimize insecure suggestions.

* Create developer blueprints and code recipes that embed secure defaults into AI scaffolding and templates.

* Mentor staff and partner teams; evangelizing AI‑secure coding, prompt safety, and pipeline guiding principles.

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  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.

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Bentonville, Arkansas US-09050:
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