Staff, Software Engineer - Merchandising Transformation
About The Position
Join Walmart as a Staff Software Engineer on the Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team within Merchandising Transformation. Design and develop scalable AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation solutions for complex merchandising challenges. Build applications, APIs, intelligent workflows, and integrations that improve decision-making, optimize merchandising strategies, and accelerate execution. Work with merchandising, product, data science, and technology teams to turn business needs into practical technical solutions using modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, AI/ML, and agentic AI frameworks, while ensuring reliability, maintainability, and measurable business impact. The Decision Intelligence & AI Solutions team develops scalable AI, advanced analytics, decision intelligence, and automation capabilities for merchandising. Working across merchandising, product, technology, and enterprise teams, the group identifies business opportunities and creates intelligent solutions to enhance decision-making, optimize strategies, and streamline operations. The team uses data science, AI/ML, agentic AI, and automation to turn insights into actionable recommendations and scalable solutions that improve performance across Walmart’s merchandising ecosystem.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in agentic AI, generative AI, and intelligent automation, including LLM integration, agent orchestration, tool use, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Proven experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade applications using cloud-native technologies, APIs, microservices, and workflow automation.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML frameworks, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, agent evaluation, and guardrails.
- Experience with software design patterns, API integrations, and rapid prototyping.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability.
- Option 1 minimum qualification: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
- Option 2 minimum qualification: 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or Statistics.
- Knowledge of creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices and Walmart accessibility standards and guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable AI-driven applications, agentic AI solutions, and intelligent automation capabilities aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
- Apply cloud-native architecture principles to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications and automated workflows.
- Lead software development activities, including coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of production-grade solutions.
- Conduct solution design reviews to validate technical feasibility, reliability, and alignment with engineering best practices.
- Develop agentic AI workflows integrating LLMs, AI/ML models, APIs, orchestration frameworks, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms for intelligent decision-making and automated execution.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business challenges into actionable technical requirements and measurable outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit program, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs, fully paid by Walmart.
- Stock may be included as additional compensation for certain positions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
