Lead AI Scientist & Strategy Architect

Walmart; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Data Scientist to shape AI strategy and lead cutting-edge AI initiatives within Customer Care Technology. This IC role emphasizes hands-on coding (about 80%) and mentorship of data scientists, driving scalable AI/ML solutions across global teams.

You'll collaborate with product, business, and UX partners to deliver measurable value while staying current with research and industry advances in generative AI and MLOps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in AI Research.
• 15+ years of experience with full ML development lifecycle.
• Experience building machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation & monitoring.
• Experience with delivering very large models through the MLOps life cycle
• Experience with generative AI technology stack including prompt engineering, guardrails, advanced RAG, KAG, CAG, and fine-tuning.
• Extensive hands‑on experience of a broad stack of technologies — Python, Huggingface, VectorDB, Tensorflow, Pytorch, ElasticSearch, Azure, etc.
• Authored research publications in top peer‑reviewed conferences (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/AAAI), or industry‑recognized contributions.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical vision, long-term strategy and set direction for the team and the organization
• Drive execution of developing models and systems
• Communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with clients and peer teams to facilitate cross-functional projects.
• Remain up to date on ongoing research and development activities in the team, help work through technical challenges, and be involved in design decisions
• Guide and lead the organization data scientists to design, architect, and build AI/ML model and model systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and machine learning engineers to deploy, operate, and optimize scalable solutions

Skills

AI Research

ML Lifecycle

MLOps

GenAI

Prompt Engineering

Python

Huggingface

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Azure

Tools

VectorDB

ElasticSearch

Azure

Huggingface

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Data Scientist to shape AI strategy and lead cutting-edge AI initiatives within Customer Care Technology. This IC role emphasizes hands-on coding (about 80%) and mentorship of data scientists, driving scalable AI/ML solutions across global teams.

You'll collaborate with product, business, and UX partners to deliver measurable value while staying current with research and industry advances in generative AI and MLOps.