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# Staff Data Scientist - Sam's Fraud Prevention

- **Company:** Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** Bentonville, AR, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, C++ (Programming Language), Fraud Prevention and Detection, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Object-Oriented Software Development, Large Language Models, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74699333-staff-data-scientist-sam-s-fraud-prevention

## About the Role

precision, recall & hypothesis testing. Employer will accept any amount of grad coursework, grad research exp or exp w/ req'd skills. For detailed job req'mts & to apply, visit http://careers.walmart.com, & apply to the following Job ID # R-2589598. EOE, AAE.

## Description

Wal-Mart is seeking a Staff Data Scientist - Sam's Fraud Prevention in Bentonville, AR. Job duties incl but not limited to architecting & productionizing Agentic AI-powered fraud decisioning syst leveraging LLM orchestration, graph-derived embeddings, & ML-based risk scoring to aggregate multi-syst signals, synthesize structured risk narratives, & generate automated accept/reject recommendations - materially reducing manual review dependency & decision latency. Master's or equiv in Analytics, Econ., CS, or rel. fld OR Bachelor's or equiv in Analytics, Econ., CS, or rel. fld + 2 yrs of exp in analytics or rel. fld. Skills req'd incl but not limited to exp w/: coding in one of following object-oriented prog'g languages: C++ or Python; Machine Learning & Deep Learning models, incl CNN, Neural Networks & Bayesian Techniques; Stats & Probability; performing data analysis & data collection using Python; identifying & applying metrics for measuring success & failure incl F1


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