Senior Manager, Data Science

. Recruit, retain, and develop a world-class team of applied scientists and engineers.

Posted 3/28/2026full-timeSunnyvale • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $110,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsPythonScalaSDLCSpark

Key responsibilities & impact

Recruit, retain, and develop a world-class team of applied scientists and engineers.
Champion modern software development life cycle (SDLC) practices.
Provide high-level technical oversight for projects involving multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, and LLM fine-tuning.
Partner with Product, Engineering, UX and Business leaders to translate ambiguous business needs into prioritized scientific workstreams.
Oversee the implementation of scalable deployment patterns for LLM-based services and agentic workflows.

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field.
Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field.
7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.
Strong foundational knowledge in Generative AI, LLMs, and/or Agentic AI systems.
Understanding of distributed systems, API design, and cloud-native deployment patterns for high-scale AI applications.
Exceptional ability to communicate complex scientific and engineering concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R.

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Generative AILLMsAgentic AI systemsdistributed systemsAPI designcloud-native deployment patternsPythonSparkScalaR

Soft Skills

communicationteam developmenttechnical oversightcollaborationprioritization