The Associate Fellow I is a highly technical, hands-on role within the Walmart Global Tech team, responsible for supporting architectural designs and advisory across multiple enterprise business domain areas.
Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform/products and frameworks.
Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform/product delivery.
Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build/leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.

Requirements

Master’s in Computer Science, ML, or related field (or equivalent).
8+ years building and deploying ML models in production.
Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark ML, XGBoost).
Strong coding proficiency in Python, SQL, Java, C++, or R.
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture design for domain-specific solutions.
Contributions to enterprise-wide AI/ML initiatives or open-source projects.
Experience applying responsible AI and compliance practices to production systems.
Experience with pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
Familiarity with AutoML, NAS, or advanced feature engineering.

Benefits

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.
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningML frameworksTensorFlowPyTorchSpark MLXGBoostPythonSQLJavaC++

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationexecutionownershipresults-orientedinspirationpartnership

Certifications

Master’s in Computer ScienceMaster’s in ML