Software Engineer - Merchandising Transformation

Role summary:
Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer on the Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation, where you will design and develop scalable AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation solutions to address complex merchandising challenges. You will build applications, APIs, intelligent workflows, and integrations that improve decision-making, optimize merchandising strategies, and accelerate execution. Collaborating with merchandising, product, data science, and technology teams, you will translate business needs into practical technical solutions using modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, AI/ML, and agentic AI frameworks while ensuring reliability, maintainability, and measurable business impact.

The Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation develops scalable AI, advanced analytics, decision intelligence, and automation capabilities to address complex merchandising challenges. Collaborating across merchandising, product, technology, and enterprise teams, the group identifies impactful business opportunities and creates intelligent solutions that enhance decision-making, optimize strategies, and streamline operations. By leveraging data science, AI/ML, agentic AI, and automation, the team transforms insights into actionable recommendations and scalable solutions that improve business performance across Walmart’s merchandising ecosystem.

• Design and deliver scalable AI-driven applications, agentic AI solutions, and intelligent automation capabilities aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Apply cloud-native architecture principles to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications and automated workflows.
• Lead software development activities, including coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of production-grade solutions.
• Conduct solution design reviews to validate technical feasibility, reliability, and alignment with engineering best practices.
• Develop agentic AI workflows, integrating LLMs, AI/ML models, APIs, orchestration frameworks, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms to enable intelligent decision-making and automated execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into actionable technical requirements and measurable outcomes.

• Strong expertise in agentic AI, generative AI, and intelligent automation, including LLM integration, agent orchestration, tool use, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Proven experience designing/ developing scalable, production-grade applications, leveraging cloud-native technologies, APIs, microservices, and workflow automation.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices to build intelligent applications, automation services, and reusable components.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agent evaluation, and guardrails to develop reliable and responsible AI solutions.
• Experience with software design patterns, API integrations, and rapid prototyping to deliver modular, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability to ensure reliability and operational excellence.

• 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
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