Distinguished Data Scientist

Walmart

Distinguished Data Scientist designing Walmart’s production AI systems and autonomous agents. Leading ML, simulation, and NLP platforms that improve retail operations globally.

Posted 8/15/2026full-timeBentonville • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $130,000 - $338,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and deploying production ML systems, including advanced development in agentic AI and reinforcement learning. Proficient in architecting large-scale AI systems and deploying enterprise-scale NLP pipelines while mentoring teams and influencing strategic direction.

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Machine Learning AlgorithmsDeep Learning with PyTorchNatural Language ProcessingAWS SageMaker and GCPPython Programming

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Hard Skills

XGBoostCatBoostLightGBMRandom ForestAutoMLBERTFAISSDockerStatistical AnalysisCausal Inference

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunicationProblem Framing

Tools & Technologies

AWS SageMakerGCPVertex AIBigQueryLangChain

Industry Keywords

Machine LearningAI SystemsNLP PipelinesData VisualizationExperiment Design

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSBigQueryDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformNumpyPandasPythonPyTorchScalaScikit-LearnSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and deploy production ML systems end-to-end, including data pipelines, feature stores, model training, serving layers, monitoring, and feedback loops
Provide technical vision and lead advanced development in agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and simulation
Architect and deploy large-scale AI systems and autonomous AI agents, including conversational assistants, predictive agents, and multi-agent orchestration systems
Design agentic evaluation frameworks benchmarking task completion, code quality, and multi-step reasoning accuracy
Deploy enterprise-scale NLP pipelines using semantic similarity, embeddings, and vector search
Lead projects through problem framing, modeling, prototyping, production architecture, and rollout
Author and review technical designs and standards and present findings to senior leadership
Mentor senior scientists and engineers on modeling, feature engineering, and experimentation
Establish best practices for model validation, experimentation, and safe AI deployment
Influence roadmap prioritization and long-term AI and simulation strategy
Present insights with data visualization, quantified business impact, and confidence intervals

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 6 years’ analytics experience; OR master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; OR 8 years’ experience in an analytics or related field
Deep expertise in ML algorithms including XGBoost, CatBoost, LightGBM, Random Forest, and AutoML
Deep learning expertise with PyTorch and transformer architectures
Production experience with NLP, BERT, SBERT, FAISS, RAG, computer vision, YOLO, CLIP, and time series forecasting with ARIMA and Prophet
Hands-on experience building and orchestrating multiple AI agents with LangChain, RAG, tool integration, and memory management
Proficiency with AWS SageMaker and GCP, including Vertex AI, BigQuery, and BigQuery ML
Strong Python skills with Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn
Experience with Docker and MLOps practices
Advanced statistical analysis, experiment design, and causal inference
Experience deploying production-grade AI systems at scale
Ability to translate complex analytical results into clear business recommendations
Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years’ data science or machine learning experience
PhD, publications or peer review, Python/Spark/Scala/R assessments, open-source frameworks, and accessibility knowledge are preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance-based bonus awards
Medical, vision and dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO, including sick leave
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
Short-term and long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
Live Better U Walmart-paid education benefit program
Tuition, books, and fees completely paid for eligible Live Better U programs
Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
Stock compensation for certain positions