Senior Distinguished I, Data Scientist

About the role

Walmart Global Tech's Next Gen Commerce team is building the future of retail through intelligent, immersive, and conversational experiences. We're creating AI-driven systems that redefine how customers discover, explore, and shop-whether through personalized media, generative content, or intelligent shopping agents. Our work spans multimodal modeling, LLM-based dialogue systems, 3D/AR content generation, and more-all at the scale of the world's largest retailer. As a Senior Distinguished Data Scientist , you will drive scientific strategy and hands-on development across some of Walmart's most strategic AI initiatives. Whether optimizing real-time conversational agents or building generative media systems, you'll help deliver transformative, customer-facing capabilities. This is a high-impact, technical leadership role focused on innovation, production-quality execution, and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and execution of AI systems that power immersive commerce and intelligent shopping journeys
• Build and optimize generative models for rich media (e.g., image, video, 3D) and multimodal understanding (e.g., vision-language, spatial awareness)
• Develop LLM-driven agents capable of multi-turn, grounded, and context-aware interactions
• Define architecture, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation pipelines across complex model stacks
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Design to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world applications
• Stay at the forefront of developments in LLMs, diffusion models, 3D representations, agent orchestration, and memory systems
• Ensure development excellence through code reviews, prototyping, model validation, and continuous optimization

Requirements

• 10+ years in Data Science, Machine Learning, or Applied AI
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following: generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, conversational AI, multimodal modeling, or 3D/AR systems
• Proven track record of deploying models into production environments at scale
• Strong understanding of model architecture, training strategy, and system performance tradeoffs
• Hands-on experience with evaluation frameworks, A/B testing, and model monitoring
• Strong communication skills and a history of influencing cross-functional stakeholders
• Ph.D. or Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or related field preferred
• Why This Role is Critical
• Join Us
• This is your opportunity to shape the future of commerce through cutting-edge AI. At Walmart, you'll turn deep science into real-world impact-reaching hundreds of millions of people.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
• For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
• Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
• For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
• The annual salary range for this position is $208,000.00-$416,000.00
• Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
• Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
• Stock
• Minimum Qualifications...
• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Comput

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