Senior Manager, Generative AI & Data Science

Walmart Connect; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 286,000; Full time

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Job summary

Walmart in Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science to lead an Applied Science and ML Engineering team within Retail AI Foundations. You will set the scientific direction for production AI systems, aligning problems and success metrics with customer needs and business priorities.

You will drive end-to-end ML and GenAI capabilities, define roadmaps for LLMs, image and video generation, and multimodal understanding, and partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field.
• Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field.
• Option 3: 7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Applied Scientists and ML Engineers.
• Define the technical roadmap and science investment strategy for LLMs, image and video generation, multimodal understanding, agentic simulation, and multi-agent systems.
• Translate priority business opportunities and customer-experience needs into AI product strategy, technical priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the end-to-end development of ML and GenAI capabilities, including data strategy, experimentation, model development, evaluation, deployment, and iteration.
• Partner across product, engineering, data, and business teams to deliver solutions for AI Shopping, Social Commerce, Walmart Connect, creator experiences, marketing, and rich-media content.
• Establish standards for model quality, safety, reliability, latency, scalability, and responsible AI.
• Guide architecture and model decisions spanning proprietary and open-weight models, post-training, fine-tuning, retrieval, and agentic workflows.
• Communicate strategy, technical tradeoffs, model performance, and business impact to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Machine learning

Deep learning

NLP

Information retrieval

Analytics

Model evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field.

Master's 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.

Job description

Walmart in Sunnyvale is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science to lead an Applied Science and ML Engineering team within Retail AI Foundations. You will set the scientific direction for production AI systems, aligning problems and success metrics with customer needs and business priorities.

You will drive end-to-end ML and GenAI capabilities, define roadmaps for LLMs, image and video generation, and multimodal understanding, and partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to