Walmart

Group Director, Software Engineering, AI Governance

Walmart

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BentonvilleCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $195,000 - $370,000 per year

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About the role

  • Lead enterprise-wide governance across models, agents, and AI-powered decision applications.
  • Design and implement a modern governance system protecting the company while enabling rapid development.
  • Establish lifecycle governance for AI systems, including model and agent registration, evaluation baselines, and monitoring for drift, bias, and degradation.
  • Define guardrails for autonomous behavior and expectations for deterministic-first architectures.
  • Lead adversarial testing across models, agents, and orchestration flows with a focus on identifying risks.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in AI, machine learning, MLOps, model risk management, cybersecurity, or large-scale analytics platforms.
  • Demonstrated ownership of governance, control frameworks, or risk programs for production AI or analytics systems.
  • Deep expertise in model lifecycle management, evaluation methodologies, monitoring, and observability.
  • Experience operating at enterprise scale and partnering across engineering, security, legal, and business teams.
  • Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into clear, actionable decisions.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AImachine learningMLOpsmodel risk managementcybersecuritylarge-scale analyticsmodel lifecycle managementevaluation methodologiesmonitoringobservability
Soft Skills
executive communicationtranslating technical riskactionable decision making