Distinguished, Software Engineer AIML Engineer- Walmart Connect
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 169000 - 338000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary...
What youll do...
About Walmart Connect:
Walmart Connect is Walmarts advertising platformleveragingWalmarts scale data and omnichannel presence to deliver impactful advertising solutions for brands and suppliers. Our mission is to help advertisers connect with Walmarts customers in meaningful ways driving measurable results and enhancing the shopping experience.
Role Overview:
As aDistinguished Software Engineer - AI/ML Engineer- Walmart Connect you will be a technical leader responsible for architecting developing and deploying advancedGen AI andML solutions that power Walmarts advertising ecosystem. You will drive innovation in areas such as ad targeting personalization bidding optimization attribution modeling and campaign analytics.Morespecificallyyou willown the end-to-end engineering & ML strategy and deliveryof custom LLMsmultimodal generative modelsRAG pipelines and autonomous multi-agent systems.Yourexpertisewill shape the next generation of Walmarts Ads platform working closely with product engineering and data science teams.
This is a rare opportunity to define the technical vision for agentic retail media at enterprise scaleturning Walmarts unmatched first-party omnichannel signals into fully autonomous self-optimizing advertising experiences that deliver superior ROAS for brands while accelerating WalmartConnectsrevenue growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape the long-term AI engineering roadmap for Walmart Ads aligning with the org vision of becoming the definitive AI-native omnichannel RMN.
- Lead the strategy for pre-training fine-tuning and aligning (RLHF/DPO) open-weight foundation models explicitly for the retail media domain
- Architect highly scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that ground LLM outputs in real-time inventory pricing and hyper-local store data.
- Architect and deploy autonomous AI agents capable of complex reasoning tool-use and multi-step planning. Use cases include autonomous campaign optimization real-time budget reallocation based on live market signals and dynamic audience discovery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Ads Product Data Science and Engineering to integrate LLMs & agentic AI into core ad surfaces (Search Display Video In-Store) and omnichannel measurement.
- Drive inference optimization (quantizationvLLMTensorRT) to ensure generative models are cost-efficient and meet the strict ultra-low latency requirements (sub-100ms) of programmatic ad exchanges and real-time bidding (RTB) environments.
- Ensure all AI capabilities are cleanly decoupled yet tightly integrated with core ad servers SSPs DSPs and yield management engines handling millions of queries per second (QPS).
- Establish the frameworks for brand safety bias mitigation hallucination detection and compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g. clean room integrations) within generative systems.
- Champion technical excellence: conduct architecture reviews andestablishbest practices.Provide thought leadership through internal tech talks and design documents. Build and grow technical talent pipelines by mentoring and attracting top AI engineering talent.
- Stay at the forefront of research and industry trends in agentic AI multimodal LLMs and retail media (internal and external).Act as a strategic partner to Product Business and Infrastructure leadership translating complex AI research into clear actionable product roadmaps and build-vs-buy decisions.
- Represent Walmart Connect in internal and external forums sharing technical insights and advancing Walmarts thought leadership in ML GenAIand advertising technology.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD orMasters degree in Computer Science Machine Learning Statistics or relatedfield.
- 12 years ofMLengineering experience with at least 5yearsoperatingat a Principal Staff or Distinguished level in a high-scale tech environment
- Deep hands-onexpertisein training fine-tuning and deploying Large Language Models and Foundation Models into production.
- Proventrack recordof designing complex systems using LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g.LangChainLlamaIndex) reasoning frameworks (Chain-of-ThoughtReAct) and multi-agent architectures.
- Strong background in designinghighly available low-latency distributed systems (handling 100K QPS) using cloud-native architectures (GCP Azure or AWS).
- Expert-levelproficiencyin Python Go Rust or C alongside modern ML frameworks (PyTorch JAX TensorFlow).
- Experience with scalable vector databases (Milvus Pinecone) feature stores and real-time streaming pipelines (Kafka Flink).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills; ability to influence technical direction and mentor teams.
- Strong foundational knowledge of programmatic advertising Real-Time Bidding (RTB) click-through rate (CTR) prediction and dynamic creative optimization.
- Experience in advertising technology retail media or e-commerce is highly preferred.
- A track recordof takingcutting-edgeacademic AI research and translating it into scalable revenue-generating enterprise products. Patents or publications in top-tier AI conferences (NeurIPS ICML) are a strong plus.
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 Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors 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 .
The annual salary range for this position is $169000.00 - $338000.00 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 6 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 8 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 4 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...
1395 Crossman Ave Sunnyvale CA 94089-1114 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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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
