(USA) Staff, Data Scientist

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will help build and evolve Walmart’s core AI conversational platform and agentic shopping experiences across voice, text, rich UI, and multimodal interactions. You will design, evaluate, and productionize advanced language, generative, and agentic AI solutions, while driving projects from problem definition through launch. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and UX teams to build scalable, reliable AI systems and enable high-impact customer experiences across Walmart platforms and external super-agent ecosystems.

Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for this

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About the team:

You will contribute to Walmart’s core AI Shopping team, enhancing customer experiences through natural voice, text, and multi-modal interactions. The team develops advanced Natural Language Understanding services that integrate seamlessly across various channels, including voice assistants, customer care, and mobile applications. Collaborating with external platforms like Open AI ChatGPT and Google Gemini, the team focuses on optimizing shopping experiences using predictive analytics, machine learning, and deep learning techniques. This group drives innovation in conversational AI, delivering scalable, data-driven solutions that support Walmart’s commitment to accessible and efficient customer engagement.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and customize state-of-the-art deep learning based generative models and multimodal models to support conversational customer shopping experience;
• Utilize cutting-edge machine learning/statistical/optimization techniques to deliver solutions for projects in the domain of conversational AI;
• Build, validate, test and deploy language models combined with different machine learning techniques to explain or predict behavior and solve business and engineering problems;
• Standardize and build scalable and highly available systems that follow operational best practices;
• Develop visuals and reports to efficiently communicating model results and insights to business;
• Maintain world-class academic credentials through patent applications, publications, conference presentations, and external collaboration and service to the research community.

Data Science, Data Science, Customer Experience, Scalable System Development, Multimodal Interaction, Ecosystems, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Engineering, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, * You have solid Python and largescale data experience, along with the ability to independently drive complex AI initiatives from requirements through production.

• You combine strong technical depth with continuous experimentation and optimization, effective cross functional collaboration, and excellent communication skills.
• A strong research background in deep learning or AI, including publications and academic contributions, is highly valued.

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., The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock