
Staff Software Engineer
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hoboken • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $132,000 - $264,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and build end-to-end agentic systems capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool execution.
- Develop AI-assisted development workflows that accelerate how software is written, tested, and iterated.
- Build agent evaluation frameworks (offline + online) to measure quality, reliability, and system behavior.
- Implement feedback-driven systems that continuously improve outputs using real-world signals.
- Architect and integrate MCP-based systems to standardize interactions between models, tools, and services.
- Develop multi-agent workflows with coordination, delegation, and dynamic task execution.
- Build scalable services (APIs, pipelines, event-driven systems) supporting real-time and batch use cases.
- Introduce patterns for observability, debugging, and traceability in AI-driven systems.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on new system behaviors, workflows, and interaction models.
- Contribute to shaping engineering practices for AI-native application development.
Requirements
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Experience building production systems that integrate AI/ML components into real-world applications.
- Familiarity with LLM-based systems, agent workflows, or tool-augmented models.
- Hands-on work with evaluation, feedback loops, or iterative system improvement.
- Ability to design and ship end-to-end solutions quickly, balancing experimentation with reliability.
- Comfort working in open-ended problem spaces with evolving requirements.
- Proficiency in Python and modern backend development, with an emphasis on building usable systems.
- Experience integrating external tools, APIs, or structured data into intelligent workflows.
- Strong ownership mindset with a focus on shipping, learning, and improving systems continuously.
- Bonus/Signals: Experience building AI-powered developer tools or automation systems.
- Work on agent frameworks, orchestration layers, or evaluation harnesses.
- Familiarity with protocol-driven systems (e.g., MCP or similar abstractions).
- Interest in human-AI interaction, rapid prototyping, or unconventional system design.
- Track record of building things quickly and iterating based on real feedback.
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.
- You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAI/ML integrationbackend developmentAPI developmentevent-driven systemsmulti-agent workflowsagent evaluation frameworksiterative system improvementobservability patternsprototyping
Soft Skills
strong ownership mindsetability to balance experimentation with reliabilitycomfort with open-ended problem spacesfocus on shipping and learningiterative feedback incorporation
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in computer engineeringBachelor's degree in computer information systemsBachelor's degree in software engineering