Principal, Software Engineer – GenAI Initiative
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 143000 - 286000
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary...
What youll do...
Job Description
Walmart Global Tech is at the forefront of AI innovation leveraging cutting-edge technologies to redefine customer experiences. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in Generative AI LLMs and RAG frameworks to lead the design development and deployment of advanced AI systems. This role involves architecting scalable solutions integrating agentic frameworks and mentoring engineering teams to push the boundaries of AI-driven innovation.
As part of Walmarts Global Sourcing Backend team you will be building highly scalable and reliable APIs services and applications which will drive the next generation purchase order management system. Youll independently handle high impact critical software/systems monitoring issues troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team youll be able to say that you work for the worlds largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.
About Team:
Focusing on customer associate and business needs this team works with Walmart International which includes more than 5200 retail units operating in 23 countries such as Canada Central America Chile China India Mexico and South Africa to name a few.
Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role
What youll do:
1. AI Model Development ; Agentic Frameworks:
2. Architecture ; Scalability:
3. Collaboration ; Product Integration:
4. Leadership ; Mentorship:
What youll bring:
As part of Walmarts Global Sourcing Backend team you will be building highly scalable and reliable APIs services and applications which will drive the next generation purchase order management system. Youll independently handle high impact critical software/systems monitoring issues troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team youll be able to say that you work for the worlds largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.
About Team:
Focusing on customer associate and business needs this team works with Walmart International which includes more than 5200 retail units operating in 23 countries such as Canada Central America Chile China India Mexico and South Africa to name a few.
Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role
What youll do:
1. AI Model Development ; Agentic Frameworks:
- Design fine-tune and deploy Generative AI models with a focus on RAG frameworks to enhance information retrieval and generation.
- Develop and optimize LLM-based agents for tasks like knowledge grounding multi-step reasoning and decision-making.
- Integrate external data sources (e.g. vector databases) with LLMs to build dynamic context-aware systems.
2. Architecture ; Scalability:
- Architect scalable distributed AI systems with a focus on performance fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
- Develop detailed design specifications including modular extensible and functional components.
- Build MVPs to validate requirements and refine designs iteratively.
3. Collaboration ; Product Integration:
- Partner with product teams to integrate AI into customer-facing applications.
- Work cross-functionally to design solutions that address both functional and non-functional requirements.
4. Leadership ; Mentorship:
- Drive technical direction for large-scale AI initiatives and mentor junior engineers.
- Establish best practices for building and maintaining AI-driven systems.
What youll bring:
- Overall 12 years of experience in machine learning / software engineering with 2 years in Generative AI or LLMs.
- Strong experience with RAG frameworks vector search technologies and knowledge grounding techniques.
- Expertise in Python ML frameworks (PyTorch TensorFlow) and libraries like Hugging Face Transformers.
- Proficiency in distributed computing cloud platforms (GCP Azure) and scalable architectures.
- Familiarity with disaster recovery principles and building resilient fault-tolerant systems.
- Experience with multi-modal models (text image video) and advanced optimization techniques (e.g. quantization distillation).
- Experience with Generative AI models (e.g. GPT Gemini) and their fine-tuning.
- Contributions to open-source projects or publications in Generative AI RAG or agentic frameworks.
- Strong understanding of system design non-functional requirements and design patterns.
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 .
The annual salary range for this position is $143000.00 - $286000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science computer engineering computer information systems software engineering or related area and 5 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 7 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no preferred qualifications.
Masters degree in computer science computer engineering computer information systems software engineering or related area and 3 years experience in software engineering or related area. 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 Walmarts accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...
840 W California Ave Sunnyvale CA 94086-4828 United States of AmericaWalmart 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.Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Walmart started with one man. In 1962, Sam Walton began with just one store and one mission: help people save money so they could live better. As a growing global digital enterprise and with over 11,500 stores, we maintain Mr. Sam’s vision, but now, we are able to help more customers ... View more
