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(USA) Distinguished, Data Scientist

Walmart, (USA) BELLEVUE SKYLINE OFFICE WA BELLEVUE Home Office

Posted pay

$156K–$312K

a year

Location: (USA) BELLEVUE SKYLINE OFFICE WA BELLEVUE Home Office
Work type: Not given
Level: Principal
Experience: 8+ years
Posted: Sep 22, 2026
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Data science, Inference & ML systems, ML / AI engineering

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The role

What you'll do... Role summary:

Walmart is seeking a Distinguished Data Scientist to shape the AI/ML vision for Global Governance across Security, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, Product Safety, Trade Compliance, and related domains. This senior individual contributor will combine deep expertise in machine learning, agentic AI, advanced analytics, and responsible AI with enterprise-level technical leadership. Partnering across Business, Product, Engineering, and Data Science, this leader will architect scalable AI solutions, establish reusable patterns and standards, mentor senior technical talent, and help transform complex governance workflows into intelligent, proactive, measurable capabilities while advancing an AI-first approach to both our products and how we build them.

About the team:

The Global Governance Technology team develops advanced technology and AI solutions to safeguard Walmart, its associates, customers, and business operations across key governance and risk areas. The team addresses complex challenges in security, compliance , privacy, legal, ethics, product safety, and global trade. Emphasizing trust, explainability, reliability, and governance, the team leverages cutting-edge machine learning, generative AI, computer vision, graph intelligence, optimization, and automation to enable predictive, proactive, and intelligent decision-making that supports Walmart’s strategic objectives. What you'll do:

Define AI/ML strategy across Global Governance and lead development of production-scale AI solutions spanning risk intelligence, investigations, anomaly detection, computer vision, graph analytics, optimization, and agentic AI. Architect reusable AI platforms and patterns, establish evaluation and Responsible AI standards, and influence build-vs-buy and long-term technology decisions. Partner closely with Business, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to move from problem framing through deployment and measurable outcomes.

Mentor senior scientists and engineers, raise technical rigor, and drive best practices across experimentation, model validation, MLOps, observability, explainability, and enterprise AI governance. What you'll bring:

Deep expertise in machine learning, applied statistics, optimization, and production AI systems, with hands-on experience in GenAI and agentic architectures including RAG, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Strong knowledge in areas such as NLP, computer vision, graph ML, anomaly detection, causal inference, forecasting, or optimization is highly valued. You should bring strong engineering judgment, experience with large-scale data and ML platforms, and a track record of influencing senior technical and business leaders.

Experience mentoring senior talent and establishing reusable technical standards or platforms is essential.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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 $156,000.00 - $312,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

What you need

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, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 6 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Master’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 4 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 8 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

Nice to have

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data science, machine learning, optimization models, PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Publications or active peer reviewer in related journals or conference, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch), We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include

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Primary Location

10900 Ne 4th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

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This base pay is above the median for principal data science jobs in other US places.

Median: $182K a year
Other jobs in the group: 35

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