Distinguished, Data Scientist - Generative Media and Asset Creation

Wal-Mart•Sunnyvale, CA

44d•$130,000 - $338,000

About The Position

Walmart's Next Gen Commerce team is pioneering the future of retail through immersive, AI-driven experiences that help customers explore, visualize, and engage with products in ways that are intuitive and inspiring. As a Distinguished Data Scientist focused on Generative Media and Asset Creation, you will play a core technical role in developing AI systems that generate rich visual content-including product imagery, themed media, videos, 3D assets, and motion graphics. Your mission is to build scalable, real-time generation pipelines that power customer-facing experiences such as virtual try-on, AR showrooms, and shoppable media. You'll collaborate closely with product, engineering, design, and platform teams to ensure generation models are accurate, realistic, performant, and cost-effective. This is a high-impact IC role for someone who thrives at the intersection of generative AI, deep learning and production-ready implementation.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in applied machine learning, computer vision, or generative AI, with a focus on media or content generation
Hands-on experience developing and deploying generative models (e.g., diffusion models, GANs, autoregressive vision-language systems)
Strong coding skills and familiarity with scalable ML pipelines and deployment frameworks
Track record of delivering media or 3D generation capabilities into real-time or production systems
Experience with model performance evaluation, perceptual metrics, and optimization for speed and quality
Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally across research, engineering, product, and design teams

Nice To Haves

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
Experience with AR/VR media generation, virtual try-on, or real-time rendering
Familiarity with 3D mesh generation, keypoint-based conditioning, and texture synthesis
Background in human-in-the-loop evaluation or responsible generative AI
Contributions to open-source projects, research publications, or patents in the field of generative modeling

Responsibilities

Design and develop cutting-edge generative models across modalities including imagery, video, 3D, and stylized content
Build scalable asset generation pipelines using diffusion models, transformer-based vision-language models, or 3D generation frameworks
Prototype hybrid systems that integrate in-house models with open-source and third-party APIs to balance quality, speed, and operational cost
Partner with media understanding teams to create feedback loops that improve generation realism, relevance, and content alignment
Contribute to long-term model architecture decisions and training strategies for foundational and task-specific generation models
Define and implement evaluation metrics for generative quality, perceptual realism, model efficiency, and end-user usability
Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure generated assets meet latency, size, and scalability requirements for customer applications
Stay current with the latest advances in generative AI and translate them into practical product innovations

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
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.
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.