Lead Data Scientist, Digital Twin Platform

Walmart Inc.; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase program

PTO and leaves

Education programs

Job summary

Walmart Inc. in Bentonville, AR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale a next-generation Digital Twin simulations platform for retail operations.

You will lead backend systems, define engineering best practices, and translate data science models into production-ready solutions across data pipelines and visualization layers. You will work with data scientists to deliver high-performance, autonomous simulations that optimize supply chain, inventory, stores, and customer

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with backend focus and platform architecture.
• Strong programming skills in Python and a high-performance language.
• Experience with distributed systems and data integration.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end digital twin platform architecture and integration.
• Build scalable simulation systems with low latency.
• Develop agent-based and ML-driven orchestration frameworks.
• Collaborate to productionize research code into scalable software.
• Create real-time dashboards by linking simulation data to UIs.
• Promote software engineering best practices (CI/CD, tests, modularity).

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Rust

Java

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka

Spark

Cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Stats

Master's degree in related field

7 years experience in analytics

Tools

Kafka

Spark

SQL

NoSQL

GCP

Azure

Job description

Walmart Inc. in Bentonville, AR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale a next-generation Digital Twin simulations platform for retail operations.

You will lead backend systems, define engineering best practices, and translate data science models into production-ready solutions across data pipelines and visualization layers. You will work with data scientists to deliver high-performance, autonomous simulations that optimize supply chain, inventory, stores, and customer